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Title needs to be changed. This is not a patent. This is a publication of a patent application. Note the metadata field on the google patents page: Publicat

by pwg 9y ago

Title needs to be changed. This is not a patent. This is a publication of a patent application. Note the metadata field on the google patents page: Publication type Application

sctb 9y ago
Thank you! We've updated the title.
Animats 9y ago
Right, it's an application. You can send the USPTO anything you want, if you pay the application fee. In the USPTO's Public PAIR system, the detailed history of the application, with images of all the documents, is available. The response from the USPTO was a "non-final rejection". The rejection starts out with "An examination of this application indicates that applicant is unfamiliar with patent prosecution procedure", and then includes a FAQ the USPTO sends to the clueless. After that, the examiner writes "The invention is not supported by a credible utility or well-established utility because the claims call for the generation of gravitational waves and and the interacting of the waves with hyperspace ... The use of hyperspace and gravitational waves in the claims therefore must be backed up with significant scientific and experimental data ... (applicant must prove) ... that the applicant has the ability to harness such interaction for a useful purpose and demonstrate it on demand." The applicant never replied to that, so, six months later, the application was rejected for failure to reply to an office action. The applicant does not get his application fee of $770 back. Trolling the patent office is expensive. The USPTO did exactly what they should have done. They took the application seriously, and sent the applicant a non-final rejection requiring proof that it worked. The applicant then gave up. Nine years later, the applicant sent in a notice of assignment, reporting the sale of the (nonexistent) patent rights to someone in Bakersfield, CA, for $5. This was filed incorrectly, but the USPTO scanned it in and put it in the database.

by pwg 9y ago

Title needs to be changed. This is not a patent. This is a publication of a patent application. Note the metadata field on the google patents page: Publication type Application

sctb 9y ago

Thank you! We've updated the title.

Animats 9y ago

Right, it's an application. You can send the USPTO anything you want, if you pay the application fee. In the USPTO's Public PAIR system, the detailed history of the application, with images of all the documents, is available. The response from the USPTO was a "non-final rejection". The rejection starts out with "An examination of this application indicates that applicant is unfamiliar with patent prosecution procedure", and then includes a FAQ the USPTO sends to the clueless. After that, the examiner writes "The invention is not supported by a credible utility or well-established utility because the claims call for the generation of gravitational waves and and the interacting of the waves with hyperspace ... The use of hyperspace and gravitational waves in the claims therefore must be backed up with significant scientific and experimental data ... (applicant must prove) ... that the applicant has the ability to harness such interaction for a useful purpose and demonstrate it on demand." The applicant never replied to that, so, six months later, the application was rejected for failure to reply to an office action. The applicant does not get his application fee of $770 back. Trolling the patent office is expensive. The USPTO did exactly what they should have done. They took the application seriously, and sent the applicant a non-final rejection requiring proof that it worked. The applicant then gave up. Nine years later, the applicant sent in a notice of assignment, reporting the sale of the (nonexistent) patent rights to someone in Bakersfield, CA, for $5. This was filed incorrectly, but the USPTO scanned it in and put it in the database.