{"id":606568,"date":"2009-11-25T06:55:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T11:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091120\/1152317028.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-25T06:55:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T11:55:18","slug":"aba-journals-patent-application-to-score-interview-with-uspto-boss-david-kappos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/606568","title":{"rendered":"ABA Journal&#8217;s Patent Application To Score Interview With USPTO Boss David Kappos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/profile.php?u=churchhatestucker\">ChurchHatesTucker<\/a> writes <i>&#8220;The ABA Journal was unable to secure an interview with the USPTO chief, so they published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/patent_pending_how_to_get_an_interview_with_the_pto_chief\/\" >faux business method patent for securing an interview<\/a>. Within four hours, they got their interview.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yes, but the real question is whether or not the USPTO would approve the patent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091120\/1152317028.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091120\/1152317028.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091120\/1152317028&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=c2ec12d06c7e4606bfbfcb41eb1e6fd3&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=c2ec12d06c7e4606bfbfcb41eb1e6fd3&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=F-emBgmH-Z8:bBZOI0mXOv0:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=F-emBgmH-Z8:bBZOI0mXOv0:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=F-emBgmH-Z8:bBZOI0mXOv0:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/F-emBgmH-Z8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChurchHatesTucker writes &#8220;The ABA Journal was unable to secure an interview with the USPTO chief, so they published a faux business method patent for securing an interview. Within four hours, they got their interview.&#8221; Yes, but the real question is whether or not the USPTO would approve the patent&#8230; Permalink | Comments | Email This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xNm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}