It's the patent office first and the court system second.

And why is it even in the patent office to begin with.

"So instead of going to the patent office, they went to you."

After six months, he jumped to a job at a patent office.

In fact, for several years the patent office's basic functions have had serious problems.

The design is now application No. 29/165,020 in the patent office.

All he has to do is file it with a patent office and he's covered.

It's already in the law, if only we can get the patent office to, you know, actually apply it.

"If the patent office can't figure out how to use the resources they already have," he said, "what is the point?"

The president's budget proposal will include $253 million to spend on information technology, the patent office says.