Ooops!! (from the same URL, edited:) Update: At 5 pm the USPTO called and said that the public access wifi
network was using a filter, provided by a contractor, to block "political activist" sites. This filter was not used by the network providing Internet access for the USPTO staff. After our meeting, the USPTO reviewed its policies, and has removed the filter. USPTO says the filter was implemented by a contractor, and no one we talked to at USPTO was aware of who was being blocked. In any event, the filter has been removed.
Makes you wonder what the contractor was doing creating the filter in the first place. - Evan On 20 September 2012 09:52, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@gmail.com>wrote:
Now then, this is the Patent and Trademark Office of the United States! See the story here: http://keionline.org/node/1548
[FWIW, back in the day, I was one of three contract SEs - me, a Vietnamese woman and a Malaysian woman, both ethnic Chinese - who put in their first full text retrieval system. At the time I worked for a German independent software house. My son, a mechanical engineer fresh out of university, went to work there as an examiner last year. We engineered that system before he was born. They were still using it!]
[Apropos, his tenure didn't last too long. Let's say in regard to too many applications, his intuit ran counter too often to that of his immediate supervisor, resulting in the inevitable conflict. This, after I told the boy to shut up and go along with the program! But noooooo. :-)].
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