A patent examiner will be the first person you encounter in the review process.

He lost most of his eyesight while working as a patent examiner.

Apparently not the patent examiners (whose job it is to make that sort of call).

The two professors say one solution is to get more information into the hands of patent examiners.

He became senior patent examiner during his first term.

A patent examiner will typically send you a list of rejections.

Patent examiners have a time budget of a few hours in which to conduct such searches.

He said he had been told by the patent examiner to "get your war chest together."

Previously, all patent examiners were required to have engineering degrees.

But if competitors are unable to find or understand an idea, there is a good chance that patent examiners will not either.

The patent examiner is obliged to list all further prior art found in searches.

But patent examiners don't have a convenient way to search these alternative information sources.

Patent examiners have access to the Internet and more than a thousand commercial databases, among other resources.

The Patent examiners grant far too many patents that are absurd.

Too bad our patent examiners are a bunch of dumbasses that won't do their job.

The community elects ten prior art pieces to be sent to the patent examiner for review.

This is revolutionary because it enables the public to directly communicate with the patent examiner.

Patent examiners are not good at their jobs.

That is adding to our costs for patent examiners, in particular where we have continued to recruit."

The patent office plans to hire 688 patent examiners this year.

The US patent examiner will accept what you tell him, am I not correct?

I have some good news to share about our efforts to improve the retention of patent examiners past their probationary period.

She said the paper files that are being discarded are part of a collection used by patent examiners.

Capability means that the 2,000 or so new patent examiners will be subject to new tests before they are hired.

And this incentive extends down to individual patent examiners, who are evaluated based on the number of applications they "close."