Thursday, November 09, 2006

US application 20040161257 and bogus claims

Discussion of US application 20040161257 is making the rounds. The correspondence address for the application is

SOCAL IP LAW GROUP

and claim 9 of the application states:

9. The method of providing user interface displays in an image forming
apparatus which is really a bogus claim included amongst real claims, and
which should be removed before filing; wherein the claim is included to
determine if the inventor actually read the claims and the inventor
should instruct the attorneys to remove the claim.

As a separate matter, note that a search in the USPTO application database for "bogus claim" returns no results -->

Results of Search in db for:
"bogus claim": 0 applications.

No application publications have matched your query

The Google search engine is not the only defective search engine in town.

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