[time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger

Joe Gwinn joegwinn at comcast.net
Wed Dec 24 21:49:23 UTC 2008


At 5:05 PM +0000 12/23/08, time-nuts-request at febo.com wrote:
>Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:10:29 +0000
>From: Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com>
>Subject: [time-nuts] Sub Pico Second Phase logger
>To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
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>Since when has prior art or obviousness kept the US Patent Orifice 
>from issuing a patent?  ;-)
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>[JG]  I just read 5,267,182.  It appears to anticipate Sotiriadis in every
>aspect, so it may be a *long* time before Sotiriadis's patent is
>issued.

The USPTO is in over their heads, both on expertise and on sheer 
volume of applications.

Given that the uncommon word "Diophantine" appears in both, there is 
a possibility that the Examiner will find 5,267,182.

Joe



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