{"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":"

How stupid and\/or lazy are<\/i> 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<\/a>, and breaking up complex training manuals into smaller components<\/a>, graded by difficulty. What the hell? How can you patent technical writing, when it’s existed for decades?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t