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That giant sucking sound you hear...

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From: t byfield

...is the USPTO imploding:


<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/01pate.html>

     May 1, 2000
     Product Designed to Ease Patent Process Wins Patent
     By SABRA CHARTRAND

     Patents that cover methods of doing business may be
     controversial, but perhaps only one patent is genuinely
     redundant. A Dallas company has won a patent for a method of
     applying for a patent.

     The company, Kernel Creations Ltd., says this is the first
     time the patent and trademark agency has awarded a patent
     for a technology for preparing a patent application. And it
     says that inventors have already been awarded patents based
     on applications prepared by use of the software.

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