I was going through the junk mail, and almost threw out a flyer from someone trying to sell Patent services. Then I noticed that it had my name and patent number on it (!!!)
I’ve mentioned that my name was on a patent before, but this is a brand spanking new patent, and I am the sole inventor. And I learn about it from someone trying to sell me stuff.
I’d filed for this two years go, at my previous employers. I thought it had sort of died, and that they had no interest in seeing it through, as I was no longer there. But these things grind along, I guess.
It’s one of my goals to one day have a patent on something. But seeing as how the most inventive things I create are sand paintings, I doubt that’s really ever going to happen. Ah well.
Damn straight. You have no idea what a problem front-surface reflection is with those triangular screens.
What still kills me about this whole episode is that th damned government doesn’t tell me about this at all – I have to learn about it from a huckster trying o sell me a framed copy of my patent front page.
Of course, I learned that my book got published in a similar way – it got listed on Amazon as soon as it got assigned an SBN number. Nobody told me that this had happened, of curse. I learned that I got an ISBN number when I saw my book suddenly pop up at Amazon before it was published.