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In 1990 I worked with a lawyer to submit a patent (cool idea, although it never made me any money). We were both new to the process, so it was a learning opport

In 1990 I worked with a lawyer to submit a patent (cool idea, although it never made me any money). We were both new to the process, so it was a learning opportunity all around. A priority of mine was to use clear and transparent language. So, I'd write something up that was human-readable, he'd legalese it, I'd re-human-readable it, and we'd iterate. It felt like we were taking a walk through document space; he'd push towards the "Legally Tight" pole, and I'd push towards the "Intelligible" pole. I think the result [0] was pretty good. [0]: https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=OR&d=PTXT&s1=5012080.PN.&OS=PN/5012080&RS=PN/5012080 https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=... (P.S. Why isn't there a simple PTO URL for "show patent number XXXXXXX"???)

AlbertCory 4y ago
in Chrome, you can just type "US<patent number>" in the address bar and it will probably work.
AlbertCory 4y ago
Not bad! Except you used "said": > a plurality of non-intersecting surfaces arranged in layers, each surface comprising multiple units, combinations of said units forming passing and blocking tuples, each tuple comprising one unit from each of said surfaces such that the projected path of any specific particle through the filter traverses a single tuple In fairness, I'm not sure "the" was generally accepted in 1991.
_ggwa 4y ago
> (P.S. Why isn't there a simple PTO URL for "show patent number XXXXXXX"???) It's going to get even worse at the end of the month when they retire the website you linked to. Patent documents can't be linked to directly in the replacement as far as I'm aware. https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-launches-new-patent-public-search-tool-and-webpage https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-launches-n...

AlbertCory 4y ago

in Chrome, you can just type "US<patent number>" in the address bar and it will probably work.

AlbertCory 4y ago

Not bad! Except you used "said": > a plurality of non-intersecting surfaces arranged in layers, each surface comprising multiple units, combinations of said units forming passing and blocking tuples, each tuple comprising one unit from each of said surfaces such that the projected path of any specific particle through the filter traverses a single tuple In fairness, I'm not sure "the" was generally accepted in 1991.

_ggwa 4y ago

> (P.S. Why isn't there a simple PTO URL for "show patent number XXXXXXX"???) It's going to get even worse at the end of the month when they retire the website you linked to. Patent documents can't be linked to directly in the replacement as far as I'm aware. https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-launches-new-patent-public-search-tool-and-webpage https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-launches-n...