An application was filed but then what? No follow through?
This site and topic is not, nor should be, about me. But to answer your question, after 8 long years (patent decisions are supposed to be made in roughly 14 months), my application was denied a second time on a likewise bogus reason by the examiner.
The first denial, almost 4 years after application, was denied on faulty grounds due to the examiner relying on another patent application which was filed several months AFTER mine. So my law firm filed an appeal on that ground and the usual course of action is for the examiner to say, "Ooops. You're right. Sorry. My mistake. Here is your patent and certification thereof."
Not so in my case. She went on a witch hunt, taking another 4 years, to find a buzz word (i.e. language) in which the patent she now brought up, had absolutely nothing to do with my invention, in any way shape or form. But by uniting a different patent concept using a buzz word from that application, she said that you could take two different existing patent ideas and come up with my idea, and so REJECTED again.
I kid you not. I tell people, it would be like inventing an actual teletransporter like used in Star Trek, and the examiner rejecting the invention because the concept had been shown in movies and TV series.
Can you imagine such a thing? You actually invent something that can teletransport an object from one location to another, but the patent is rejected because it was referred to in a book or movie.
Except my Star Trek example is not even as egregious as what happened in my case. The buzz word from the 2nd patent, was not related in any way to my invention. It just used a common word, that I was using to describe my invention.
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I had my idea in the mid-1980's, prior to the advent of the world wide web (www) protocol. The www protocol came about in 1990. I continued to develop my idea on paper and add flow charts and blueprints. By the late 1990's, nobody on the web was doing what my invention was to do.
I had basic computer programming skills, but not the type of skill necessary to bring my application to life on the internet. Few did, nor do.
When Wayne saw my flow charts and blueprint for the idea, he said "Wow. I think you're really onto something here." And he loved the challenge of bringing it to life. Even to this day, my invention remains state-of-the-art, and is not being done properly by companies, who still do not understand the proper ideas, nor the technology that should be in place to give them great profits and super customer service.
So I contracted with Wayne and his partner's company to bring my invention to life, but in the contract I was sole owner with all rights. That is why Wayne's name does not show up in the Patent search, and why the idea that somebody working on a patent will have their name on the application process, is simply not true.
