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 > ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Gayatri Sardeshpande at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5365 ##############################################################