Saturday, March 16, 2019 10:13
The previous article, Citizen Initiative Aims to End War on Extraordinary Technologies, revealed the secret illegal Sensitive Application Warning System (SAWS) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). It began in 1994, early in the administration of President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, and ended late in President Obama’s administration, only because the USPTO was busted and exposed in the news media. President Trump did not inherit the illegal USPTO program from President Obama, but he did inherit an ongoing hostile environment toward extraordinary technologies.
In response to that illegal program, a group of Denver citizens, including me, recently proposed a new law that was first suggested in POWER UP – How to Create a Solution-Based World in 100 Days. The article included the full text of the proposed law and a sample ballot question that could appear in any of thousands of cities around the U.S. Maybe President Trump should put one of those crime scene ribbons around the USPTO and finally investigate who created the illegal SAWS program.
Why bother trying to create a local patent office? Kate Goudry, a patent attorney, described why the secret USPTO SAWS program was unconstitutional, and therefore illegal. In summary, she explained that it was illegally secret, did not follow any law or the rules of the USPTO, was vague, and arbitrarily targeted specific categories of patent applications. Her analysis includes a partial but lengthy “hit list” of patent applications.
Again, they included:
- “Anti-global warming devices or any other device operating at the global scale”
- “Motor, power plant, or other device which is self-sustaining (perpetual motion) or appears to violate the laws of chemistry or physics”
- “Claiming prevention or curing of diseases which were previously considered impossible to prevent or cure.” [i.e. cancer, AIDS and HIV, Alzheimer’s, etc.]
- “Applications which would potentially generate unwanted media coverage (i.e., news, blogs, forums)”
The last category is downright silly. Instead of celebrating breakthrough inventions through the news media, the USPTO obstructed or delayed applications for such inventions to avoid unwanted publicity. The USPTO website finally admitted that the SAWS program existed. Not surprisingly, it tried to explain that the program was meant to ensure “quality patents”, even though SAWS was clearly illegal and unconstitutional. It stated, in part:
“The Sensitive Application Warning System (SAWS) program is one of many practical, internal efforts that the USPTO has in place to ensure that only the highest quality patents are issued by the Agency.” It goes on to state, “This quality assurance program applies to all pending patent applications that disclose potential SAWS subject matter, which typically represent a very small percentage of all pending applications in an average month, usually around 0.04%.”
Sounds reasonable, right? However, that is what you call, “damage control through brazen spin” or “D.C. – B.S.”, if you know what I mean. The entire patent office explanation of the SAWS program never mentions the secret or other illegal aspects of SAWS.
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