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by btrettel 2y ago
Fair enough. Replace "I" with "someone" in my previous comment. I can see why people would do these patent searches, but I still think it's a bad idea for those folks do these patent searches for so little.
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by btrettel 2y ago
Why should I do a "public service" for a company with a market cap measured in the tens of billions of dollars? They can pay for it. And this is a much bigger ask than picking up litter.
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by btrettel 2y ago
Did you all pay for a normal invalidation search as well? I'm glad it worked for you all, but I think "spray and pray" is typically not a good strategy. I suppose you all had enough scale to reach the right people.
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by btrettel 2y ago
I have no personal opinion. If you want the opinion of the examiner, you can go here: https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/applications/16456602/ifw/doc... Look for "Notice of Allowance and Fees Due (PTOL-85)&
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by btrettel 2y ago
> The parent clearly said that approved parents were bullshit, and I agree. Just because they said it was granted, doesn't mean that it was. A lot of people here don't seem able to distinguish between a granted patent and a rej
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by btrettel 2y ago
Thanks for your comment. Personally, I value my own time well above my job's hourly rate, so I would expect to be paid more, not less, in the situation you describe. I suspect the same is true for many others as well. > most of the
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by btrettel 2y ago
If you go to a hospital that lacks the resources to provide proper treatment, should you be surprised to receive poor treatment even if your doctor was highly competent? That's basically the situation the USPTO is in. Examiners are on
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by btrettel 2y ago
> Cloudflare is shrewdly calculating that there is a lot of latent, unexpressed hate toward patent trolls but that most people don't want to make a career out of it, but might very well make a little hobby out of it, and so they get
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by btrettel 2y ago
Gene Quinn (in 2015) estimated that patent search with the attorney's opinion on patentability for software costs around $2500 to $3000 [1]. Obviously the cost is going to be higher now. Compare that alone against the $1000 ("at l
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by btrettel 2y ago
After I quit the USPTO, I tried using ChatGPT 3.5 for some basic patent examining activity out of curiosity, and I can say that it did an absolutely horrendous job. This wasn't prior art search, just analyzing the text to do a rejectio
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by btrettel 2y ago
As a former patent examiner, I was struck by how low the payout for Project Jengo was. $125,000 for all people submitting prior art? (There were hundreds of submissions, so it's split among many people.) I would like to help out with
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by btrettel 2y ago
That's a problem of aim, not spray formation, and thus beyond my expertise. The Rayleigh regimes produce large droplets (mainly diameters similar to the orifice) and not a finer spray that could go everywhere. Also: Peeing into only th
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by btrettel 2y ago
I just skimmed the article, but it reminds me of something from my own PhD in fluid dynamics. I worked in liquid jets/sprays, basically, when a stream of liquid flows from a nozzle and breaks into droplets. Nearly everyone has seen thi
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by btrettel 2y ago
I don't know about the others, but Zotero automatically informs me of retractions for articles in my database: https://www.zotero.org/blog/retracted-item-notifications/ So, if a previous article is retracted
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by btrettel 2y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply!
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by btrettel 2y ago
Can you post a link to the study?
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by btrettel 2y ago
Reminds me of an investing strategy I came across on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrarian_investing > In "The Art of Contrary Thinking" (1954) by Humphrey B. Neill; considered influential by
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by btrettel 2y ago
I think I found the source for that. Doesn't say whether Glass revealed his identity, though. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/nov/24/arts.highe... > Einstein on the Beach was premiered
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by btrettel 2y ago
There were some enjoyable parts, but I personally thought the job was quite stressful because of the high quota. Psychologically, I found it difficult to reduce my quality of work enough to meet the quota. Many examiners at the USPTO can kn
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by btrettel 2y ago
> Why should an overworked USPTO lead to more patents? That assumes that the default is to grant the patent. If the default is to reject the patent, then an overworked office would not lead to more patents. Former USPTO patent examiner h
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by btrettel 3y ago
I get the impression that you think that Fortran is a bad language for science. Modern Fortran is a nice language for many scientific computing tasks. For me, I like Fortran because it's basically the easiest statically-typed compile
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by btrettel 3y ago
> It takes too much work to verify everything in every field personally, you wouldn't be able to move at all. Yes and no. The scale of the checking problem is formidable, as you're aware. However, many claims in scientific pape
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by btrettel 3y ago
The earliest that I've seen the attitude that one should eliminate dependencies because they have more bugs than internally written code was this book from 1995: https://store.doverpublications.com/products/9780486
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by btrettel 3y ago
> The reason you get BS patents is because they only give the clerk a small amount of time to make a decision, so they have to work with whatever info they have -- they don't have time to seek out additional information. As a former
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by btrettel 3y ago
Former patent examiner here. Current AI patent search isn't that useful in my experience. The USPTO had multiple AI patent search tools circa 2022 (when I quit), most of which were of comparable quality to the similar documents listed
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by btrettel 3y ago
Sorry, blimps aren't my area of expertise. I don't know what's going on there.
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by btrettel 3y ago
> Appreciate the input. Have you tried FluidX3D? Glad to help. I'm not familiar with FluidX3D. Lattice Boltzmann methods are uncommon, probably because they are computationally expensive. I'm a finite volume and finite differen
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by btrettel 3y ago
> stuffing a bunch of small straws in the main tube helps, because if you have a lot of smaller tubes - (especially with water) you can get the effective "orientation of the molocules" the same - so your stream can be more cohe
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by btrettel 3y ago
I don't like this practice at all. Patent examiners see applicants claiming things that they likely believe isn't allowable all the time. When done in bad faith it's called "inequitable conduct" [1]. Keep in mind th
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by btrettel 3y ago
The WIPO document you linked to is not a patent. The WIPO's opinion (available on Espacenet and elsewhere) is that the claims are not novel or non-obvious. There is an associated US patent application, but the USPTO rejected the applic

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