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To: Gus who wrote (3796)	2/9/2000 10:37:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 5195

This only goes to prove how crazy it is to have juries deciding patents. My husband is a patent examiner, has been for the last ten years - his art has nothing to do with telecomm, which is good because if it was then I would be prohibited from investing in it (conflict of interest). It takes years of narrow specializing in one area of technology to become a senior examiner. I think in most cases only a patent examiner really knows the prior art well enough to know what's obvious, what infringes, and what's a valid extension of the prior art, although probably an engineer who specializes in the art will understand the technology, but not the wide ranges that make up any given art, and probably would need specialized training in the law. It's possible that a patent lawyer will know the technology well enough, but the ones I've met don't know anything outside their own engineering background, which was years ago. The engineers that become patent examiners and go to law school typically don't stay in the patent office for more than a couple of years.

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