Let's just hope the examiner has enough information to reject these
claims
due to prior art. Unfortunately, there's no guarantee that the
examiner
will be sufficiently familiar with the prior art and once granted,
patents
cost a fortune to challenge.
They won't be rejected for prior art. I can't think of the last time
a tech patent was rejected for prior art (not that I'm in the know at
the USPTO - I am not not *not* a patent lawyer - but when was the last
time anyone here heard of a technology patent app. being rejected for
prior art?)
The conventional wisdom is that the USPTO's mode now is to grant nearly
everything, and let it be sorted out by the courts.
Has this hit over on Marid yet? The web archives are horribly behind,
and I don't get it to my mailbox.
Anne