Hello, I am a Patent Examiner who works for the US Patent and Trademark Office based in Alexandria Virginia, just outside of DC. Sorry for reddit spacing but I'm trying to stay organized.
There was an incident earlier today (Tuesday September 13) in the Remsen Building located at 400 Dulany St, Alexandria, VA 22314. As far as I can tell, there has been zero media coverage of this event. I know that there are members of the media who come here for intel, so here is a scoop for you. Especially for the Tucker Carlson guys, this is right up your alley.
The following information has been officially confirmed: There was an incident involving a "mental health crisis" requiring Alexandria PD, and the building has been closed until further notice twitter.com/alexandriavapd/status/1569733214217854978
The following information has been given to me by multiple independent sources: Someone was removed from the building, handcuffed to a stretcher. See picrel. A truck from the Va Chief Medical Examiner (coroner) was on site for several hours today. The person in the stretcher tied up and killed his SPE (Supervisory Patent Examiner, basically the manager of ~20 examiners who work on patent applications from a similar technology area) in a stairwell of the building.
The Office has sent out two vague emails to the Examining Corps today. Neither one provided any details about what happened today.
I actually live more than 1,000 miles from Alexandria on the opposite side of the country. USPTO has had very generous with telework policies for the last 10+ years, even before it became the norm with covid. There are about 8000 patent examiners and about 90% have full time telework status and live all over the 50 US states plus PR.
David Bell
Thanks Examiner Fag. Have you ever allowed claims you didn't really think were allowable, but just didn't care or didn't want to deal with the case anymore? Have you rejected claims you thought were allowable, but didn't want to because you thought the prosecuting attorney/agent was a piece of shit?
I'm not reading those links about patent examiners going nuts. Paraphrase that shit for me. This whole thing is weird af I'll give you that but wtf about patent examining would make a person homicidal.
Austin Parker
Kekd twice
Oliver Young
Honestly, yes to both. But only in the most egregious cases. Usually I don't have time for that and the goal is to get to some kind of disposal as quickly as possible. My personal philosophy is that you can find something in almost every application that makes it allowable, and you can also string together a bunch of references to reject any claim. Nothing we see is truly 100% novel, the real issue is whether or not it would have been obvious to a PHOSITA without the benefit of hindsight reasoning. Do you work in-house for someone or a firm?
Samuel Brooks
Hurry up with my patent please. I paid up no delays please
Jackson Ross
I've been working for a firm for almost 10 years. Don't really like it, never have. Regret going to lol school.
Robert Davis
>Do you work in-house for someone or a firm? Yes, and now you're on a list to get v&, considering your admission. Please, standby while the DoJ backtraces your IP and sends a unit. Thank you for posting on fedchan.
Camden Nguyen
>wtf about patent examining would make a person homicidal. Unlike most government jobs where some slug just sits in an office all day watching the clock, patent examining is production based. We have a very limited amount of time to basically read a patent application, search through all of human knowledge, and then draft a legal document where we state why or why not this idea should receive a patent. Go do a google search for some patents and start reading them and imagine doing this at a very high level of concentration for 80 hours per biweek, 26 biweeks per year for the rest of your life. The job is also very socially isolating. We generally don't have many meetings or work collaboratively. You basically sit alone in an office at a desk and read patents all day with minimal human contact. For some people this is great. For others with latent mental issues, they go off the deep end.
James Perez
>mental illness >mental illness >mental illness Ah. This is a pharmakike shill thread. Time for my meds now.
Sirs, plz send me your application number and I will do the necessary and expedite it.
Logan Cruz
And then they're dealing with assholes like me splitting hairs and going "lol you're wrong, try again." I'm enough of an autist to leverage the rules and sometimes make them work for free (i.e., they don't get credit for the work they have to do, for some reason). I only do that stuff when I feel like they're dicking me around or being really lazy though.
I have a yearly billing goal, where I have to bill X amount per year. We can't bill for all the time we work, for a variety of reasons. This requires a large amount of motivation and planning to be successful. Turbo-autists are typically a good fit for the job.
