The USPTO is *not* in the business of denying patents.  Like other governme=
nt bureaucracies ...... they have made up their own rules as they go.  The =
USPTO would *not* like your suggestion HH .
Gus

> On Jun 2, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
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> Once again, This American Life has done an excellent program on patents.
> The latest one, at
> http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/when-patents-a=
ttackpart-two
> describes how Carbonite got a patent invalidated by an apostrophe in one
> of the application documents.
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> I STILL think the patent office should publish patents for public review,
> then review the public comments before granting a patent. It's a lot
> easier for hundreds or thousands of people to find prior art or comment o=
n
> obviousness than for a lone patent examiner to do the same.
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> Harold
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