On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > IANAL, but as near as I can tell the USPTO has almost completely given > up on their responsibility to actually evaluate patents before > granting them. The philosophy seems to be that they'll let anything > go through, and if somebody doesn't like it let the courts sort it out.
IMHO the individual examiners should be held liable if the patent is found invalid due to prior art. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
