{"id":697,"date":"2002-01-17T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-17T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=697"},"modified":"2002-01-17T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-17T20:20:00","slug":"patenting-technical-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/01\/17\/16\/20\/patenting-technical-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Patenting Technical Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How stupid and\/or lazy <i>are<\/i> patent examiners? Are they high-school dropouts. These two patents, issued in 1997 and 1999, patent the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;p=1&#038;u=\/netahtml\/search-bool.html&#038;r=3&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;co1=AND&#038;d=ft00&#038;s1='5,851,117'&#038;OS=%225,851,117%22&#038;RS=%225,851,117%22\">using training manuals to teach someone<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;p=1&#038;u=\/netahtml\/search-bool.html&#038;r=2&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;co1=AND&#038;d=ft00&#038;s1='5,851,117'&#038;OS=%225,851,117%22&#038;RS=%225,851,117%22\">breaking up complex training manuals into smaller components<\/a>, graded by difficulty. What the hell? How can you patent technical writing, when it&#8217;s existed for decades?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How stupid and\/or lazy are patent examiners? Are they high-school dropouts. These two patents, issued in 1997 and 1999, patent the idea of using training manuals to teach someone, and breaking up complex training&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}