"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Frogloogyherringsnacks" wrote in message
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Bill McKee wrote:
"nom=de=plume" wrote in message

You're a liar. Nothing like that is in the database under the name
you're using.

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Nom=de=Plume


Incompetent troll.
Maybe she doesn't know Bill is short for William?
I don't think so.
I had no trouble finding your patent using google.
No "database" needed. Well, google is essentially a database.
Took all of 10 seconds.
But you're probably right about her being a troll.
The giveaway is "under the name you're using."
Cute. A dishonest way to try to cut somebody down.



I put my name and "patent" in Google. Returned as number two on the list,
the first being a Richard with a last name spelled differently than mine.

I didn't Google using "Eisboch".

I have bad memories of dealing with patent attorneys. When I sold my
company and the buyer began the due diligence process, two patent
attorneys were the first people I met with. One was a corporate type for
the buyer, the other was a hired consultant. Spent the better part of
two days with them, and finally they left to go do whatever it is that
they do.

What was the bad experience? The exhaustive process? Unfortunately, if you
don't go through that process these days, your patent will either be denied
or can be subverted.


We then went through the (almost 3 month) exhausting process of due
diligence, looking at all our financials, taxes, liabilities, etc. and I
was getting worn out by the whole process. The buyer was a large, public
company and had many resources, including a staff of lawyers, accountants
and marketing types. Any small business owner who goes through this will
understand how grueling the process is and at some point you basically
become committed to the deal, just to get it over with.

The day before the official closing (almost 3 months later) the two patent
attorneys came back with a 3 inch stack of patent copies. They started
going through them, one by one, asking if we built anything like what was
on the patent papers. It was ridiculous. It was like being Ford and the
attorney hands you a patent by Chevrolet and asks if you make anything
similar.

The CEO of the acquiring company was a gruff, tough talking, no-nonsense
type and nobody in his company cherished getting on his radar screen. By
8 pm, the evening before the closing, we were only halfway through the
stack of papers that his patent attorneys had prepared. Exasperated, I
called for a break and told them that I had had enough and one of them
was going to have to call the CEO of their company and tell him the
closing would have to be postponed to a later date because we still had a
pile of papers to go through.

The patent attorneys looked at each other with panic in their faces,
picked up the remaining paperwork and stuffed it into their briefcases.
They then announced that everything was fine, there didn't appear to be
any patent conflicts or infringements to be concerned with and left.

The closing occurred on time the next morning.

Eisboch

It sounds like there's a bunch of missing information, but it's hard to
tell. In any case, you got your stuff done? Good for you.

It's one of the reasons I got out of doing for companies... too much trouble
with engineers/scientists.

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Nom=de=Plume