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Chapter V

Pick Your Lane

The actual case for cancellation: ask Claude to find the errors, then walk the claim through §§ 101, 102, 103, and 112.

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Dispatch No. 17 — Let's Ask Claude

Let's see if we can uncover any other errors. (I objectively cheated — I used Opus 4.8.)

Dispatch No. 17 · Let's Ask Claude Read the dispatch →
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Dispatch No. 18 — Indefinite and Unenabled

Definite-and-anticipated, or novel-and-unintelligible. They don't get to have it both ways.

Dispatch No. 18 · Indefinite and Unenabled Read the dispatch →
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Dispatch No. 21 — § 101 — What Even Counts as an Invention

You can't patent E = mc² by adding “…on a computer.”

Dispatch No. 21 · § 101 — What Even Counts as an Invention Read the dispatch →
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Dispatch No. 22 — § 102 — Nothing New Here

Anticipation is not an ipsissimis verbis test — my Figure 8 already shows it.

Dispatch No. 22 · § 102 — Nothing New Here Read the dispatch →
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In progress

Pick your lane: anticipated under § 102, or obvious under § 103. The claim doesn't survive either way.

Dispatch No. 23 · § 103 — Obvious to Anyone in the Field Read the dispatch →
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In progress

The single best argument against this patent is one nobody outside the examiner's chair was allowed to make — until the most expensive possible moment.

Dispatch No. 24 · § 112 — They Never Said How Read the dispatch →