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		<title>ESP responds to USPTO consultation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The below letter is ESP&#8217;s submission to the USPTO 2010 post-Bilski consultation.  The best part of the Bilski decision was that it left the door open for excluding software from the patent system in a future ruling.  Instructions about what has to change today are a little more subtle, but we&#8217;ve formalised three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USPTO interim guidelines request for comment &#8211; as text</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the text from http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-18424.pdf
To help ESP reply to this consultation, please contribute to this wiki page: USPTO 2010 consultation &#8211; deadline 27 sept.
Formatting of the below text is a work in progress (25 Aug 2010).    This is the second of two related documents published on news.swpat.org; the other is USPTO’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USPTO&#8217;s 101 Method Eligibility Quick Reference Sheet &#8211; as text</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USPTO is seeking comment, until 27 Sep 2010, on how to interpret the Supreme Court&#8217;s Bilski decision.
To help ESP reply to this consultation, please contribute to this wiki page: USPTO 2010 consultation &#8211; deadline 27 sept.
Below is a text published (pages 3 and 4) by the USPTO when announcing this call for comment.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Page orientation patents, the USPTO, and you</title>
		<link>http://news.swpat.org/2010/02/page-orientation-patents-the-uspto-and-you/</link>
		<comments>http://news.swpat.org/2010/02/page-orientation-patents-the-uspto-and-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ciaran</dc:creator>
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  When people or computers at the USPTO detect that a fax has been sent upsidedown and needs to be turned 180°, what do they do? They send it back and ask you to turn it 180°.  Why don&#8217;t they do this obvious task themselves automatically?




  Are they worried about this patent [...]]]></description>
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