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Chapter III

A Private Conversation, Held in Public

Examination plays out in public, but it's a conversation between exactly two parties. I had to watch from the cheap seats and say nothing.

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Dispatch No. 6 — The Third-Party Preissuance Submission

A document number in the file means “considered.” Not read. Not understood. Not applied.

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Dispatch No. 7 — Progress — A Final Rejection

I don't care how it was rejected. Just that it was rejected.

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Dispatch No. 8 — Back From the Dead

“Lift your foot, move it forward, set it down.” — “Congratulations, you get a patent.”

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Dispatch No. 10 — Post-Allowance, Preissuance — What could I do?

I'd love something between “you can do absolutely nothing while your IP gets mischaracterized and taken” and this nutty PGR process.

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Dispatch No. 11 — Suspicious Allowance Timing

Five days after the Notice of Allowance, the acquisition was finalized and publicly announced as complete.

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Dispatch No. 12 — A Private Conversation, Held in Public

All I wanted to say was, “read page 9 for F@#$ sake!” — it's right there. But I couldn't even do that.

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Dispatch No. 14 — My Apology to Good Examiners

Plenty of examiners do very good work under terrible conditions. To them: I'm sorry for this blog.

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