Yes, you are a Winner!
You are hereby awarded theSherlock Holmes Award for Excellence! Make your friends aware of youroutstanding and brilliantdeductive reasoning!
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Clues for the game…
During the few moments that it will take to load the images, here are the clues you need to play this game. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) mandates that a request is generally to be responded to within twenty days. Some of my requests had taken as long as 51 days. I had complained. […]
Read MoreConflict of Interest? You Decide! Nancy Slutter and her lawyer husband!
Nancy Slutter is a lawyer at the Patent Office. Her husband is Regis Slutter, who is a partner at Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis LLP, Intellectual Property Law. Isn’t that precious that he deals in “intellectual property law” and his wife just happens to work for the General Counsel at the Patent Office. I wonder if Burns Doane […]
Read MoreProof that the Patent Office has too many lawyers and too much money!
This belongs in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! I couldn’t afford to pay the second Maintenance Fee on a 1989 patent of mine at the time that it was due. When I could afford it, I sent the Patent Office a Petition along with a check for $3,105 as specified in their Schedule of Fees. […]
Read MoreAlexander Graham Bell Where Are You When We Need You?
Every year, the Director of the Patent Office produces an Annual Goals document. A recurring goal is for Patent Office employees to be more responsive to inventors by returning their phone calls. Evidently this has been a problem for many, many years. Between July 11 and October 28, 2003, I made over 100 phone calls […]
Read MoreBe Sure To Stand Upwind From “Downwind”
In 2003, Forbes Magazine ran a series of articles about the Patent Office. The following was my Letter To The Editor. They did print part of my letter, but not the part about “Downwind”… To Forbes Magazine, I read your series of articles about the Patent Office with great interest. However, I think you presented […]
Read MoreGoofing-off at the Department of Justice!
In April of 2004, one of the visitors to my website was “wdcsun24.usdoj.gov” – which is the United States Department of Justice. They visited the site three times, looked at 31 different files and downloaded 13,001,000 bytes of data! I decided to find out exactly who “wdcsun24.usdoj.gov” was at the Dept of Justice. So I […]
Read MoreMurphy’s Law and U.S. Attorney Warren Zimmerman!
Of course, I confess that I actually did make a mistake using a prior document and trying to modify the date. So I filed an amended document with the court with the new date. I thought that was the end of the matter.But six days later, Warren filed six “Notice of pendency of other actions” […]
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