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Some examiners are easier to hide the ball from than others. But if your claim can never be infringed under the laws of physics, who cares if you have that clai
by monochromatic 11y ago
Some examiners are easier to hide the ball from than others. But if your claim can never be infringed under the laws of physics, who cares if you have that claim issued in a patent?
- lisper 11y agoI care, because it is indicative of the lack of care that the PTO takes when making these decisions. I have four other patents which, in retrospect, also should not have been issued, and God only knows how many bogus patents have been issued to other people. Even if 99% of them are harmless that doesn't undo the real damage done by the rest.
- monochromatic 11y agoIn a perfect world, there would be enough funding for examiners to spent a month examining every application that comes in. In the real world, I worry a lot more about overbroad claims being issued than silly, but extremely narrow claims being issued.
- lisper 11y agoI completely agree. I'm not holding up my patent as an example of the problem, merely as a data point to support my claim that getting a patent that does not meet statutory requirements (of utility and enablement in my case) is easy.