Political Quotes

“I would be happy to respond. The individual who is in the process and is having a lengthier time processing the patent application than the 19-month average would be concerned about that. Under those circumstances, they would withdraw the patent application and if they wanted to try for the patent again, they are not in any way deprived from having the opportunity to resubmit the patent application which will then pick up with a lot of the work already having been done previously and process the patent through. I doubt there will be very much time lost. Against that, I want to weigh the benefit of publication. No inventor wants to spend years of their life working on something to find out that somebody else had previously already filed, whether they are a deliberate submarine patenter like some who have kept them submerged for 30 years or others.”