Rainer Zocholl wrote: > jori.hamalainen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 04.03.05 11:15 > > > >>USPTO doesn't check google for that stuff.. :-) They take money from >>companies by allowing them to patent things, and decide later if that >>patent was a valid one. > > > That's the problem! > If USPTO grants a patent, they get much more money than > as if they would discard it! (*) I think that other main problem, is much more often the culprit. It is much more paperwork to reject a patent than to grant it. You have to reason why you can't grant a patent, but "OK, granted" is more or less enough in the other case. And as the USPTO employee isn't "responsible/liable" for what he/she did, granting is much more "smooth sailing", than the "stressfull" rejection. :-( Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.
