On Apr 14, 10:17 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Administration Shares Views on SenatePatent ReformBill: Commerce Secretary
> Gutierrez Letter to Senate Calls for Patent Applicant Quality Submissions
> Provision in Patent Modernization Legislation
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> | The Administration strongly supports the AQS provision in the bill in its
> | current form, and believes enacting AQS will reduce the number of poor
> | quality and imprecise applications, thus dramatically reducing patent
> | pendency and backlog, as well as the likelihood of excessive litigation.
> `----
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> http://www.uspto.gov/main/homepagenews/2008apr03.htm
>
> Related:
>
> Method and instrument for proposing marriage to an individual
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> | The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved method of proposing
> | marriage to an individual. The method of proposing to an individual generally
> | comprising the steps of meeting the individual; exchanging names with the
> | individual; dating the individual (not necessary); drafting a government
> | document having a proposal to marry the individual incorporated therein; and
> | showing the government document to the individual. The government document
> | may be a patent application. The patent application may claim the method by
> | which the proposor will make a marriage proposal to the individual. The
> | proposor could then use the method claimed in the patent application to
> | propose to the individual. The patent application could be the actual
> | marriage proposal.
> `----
>
> http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=...
The letter from Sec'y Gutierrez reads as if drafted by Undersecretary
Dudas or one of his staffers.
The patent application was filed for an "invention" by Ryan T. Grace,
a registered patent attorney whose registration shows the address of
Merchant & Gould in Seattle, which is listed as the patent counsel of
record. It's apparent that tongue is in cheek. :-)
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