A historical note: Albert Einstein was working in the Patent office in 1905
when he wrote his paper on special relativity.
Tim Reeves


> Lastly, remember, the patent offices are staffed by people who cannot/do
> not
> want to be in the highly competitive commercial world, and the law is so
> arcane, and archaic, that it is years behind the rest of the world.  My
> company has abandoned patent applications simply because we could not get
> the
> patent office to understand the concept of what we are patenting.
>
> Very obvious things have been patented.  We have been sued over things
> that
> we thought were so obvious that they could not be patented.   In some
> cases
> two patents have been issued for essentially the same idea.  The patent
> office is not full of the brightest lights in the world, and NOBODY ever
> got
> fired from the government for being dumb.
>
> Rudy Sedlak
> RD Chemical Company
>

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