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• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: Applying XML to Improve Patent Processes (WAS RE: [ xml-dev] A sta ndard approach to glueing together reusable X ML fragment s in prose?)
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:02:44 -0400
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Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit:

> My guess is that from their point of view, the filers are the public. 
> How could that work any other way?   They are there to serve policy, 
> not set it.  The quarrel may be with the policy makers not the agency 
> designated to implement it.

Not so.  The USPTO is funded solely by income from patent filings and
searches; I would guess that the bulk of the income comes from the former
source.  It is therefore in their interests to allow as many patents as
possible to be filed with as little oversight as possible, and (secondarily()
to make searching as inefficient as possible without making the service
downright useless.  Their business plan talks about hiring more examiners
so that they can get patents from "filed" to "in effect" as fast as possible:
absolutely no mention of rejecting any.

-- 
John Cowan
        jcowan@r...
                I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin

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