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This actually happened to my father, who personally filed a patent for a business he and his wife were starting. The patent got flagged and placed into SAWS and

This actually happened to my father, who personally filed a patent for a business he and his wife were starting. The patent got flagged and placed into SAWS and it took nearly 10 years (!) to drive it to resolution (it got issued). He is actually a patent attorney (though not in software) and was only able to find out what happened by back-channeling through some contacts at the patent office. He's been a patent attorney for 35 years and expressed complete shock when he learned about the program.

jlgaddis 12y ago
> Charnes and his colleague Kate Gaudry plan to publish an article for Law360, an online journal, in hopes of informing the public about this program, which they say most companies are wholly unaware of. Did you consider asking your father to get in touch with these two? Charnes is identified as "a partner at the firm" and, presumably, Gaudry is as well, but it could only help their article's credibility to have input from a third-party.