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So USPTO employees are lying about time spent looking for prior art, among other things. I thought the system was only conceptually flawed, but nope, it's also
by raquo 12y ago
So USPTO employees are lying about time spent looking for prior art, among other things. I thought the system was only conceptually flawed, but nope, it's also corrupt throughout.
- nickff 12y agoTo be fair to the USPTO employees, it is quite likely that they are behaving like their fellow government employees in other departments, but they are being more closely examined because of the systemic flaws in the patent system. This would be a sort of selection bias; perhaps observer selection bias.[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias#Observer_selection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias#Observer_selecti...