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Now during this time, the teachers aren't going to be thinking "Does this deserve an A", they're going to be thinking "Would an examiner give this an A".

When you think about it, patent examiners make industrial policy that affects the entire United States for up to 20 years.

The Supreme Court's opinion [1] urges judges to give specific instructions to the jury that it is allowed to take into account the fact that prior art introduced at trial was not considered by the patent examiner.

Could you please stop this?You do realize he was found dead by his uncle?Are you seriously suggesting his uncle and the NYC medical examiner are part of some conspiracy?There is enough madness in this world to intentionally add to it.

Still, examiners are human --- and a lot of them aren't experienced enough to have signature authority: their actions must be signed by their supervisors, who have to oversee multiple junior examiners.

Another primary examiner and a supervisory primary examiner are listed as "conferees.

" This means that in the examiner's view, every single element of claim 19 can be found in a single prior-art reference --- in this case a patent publication by Lira, and, separately, a patent issued to Ording --- and therefore the claim is unpatentable under 35 USC 102 [3].