My new Patent is dead

After some extensive search, I found others have already got the idea, so the process is aborted. Good thing is now I have more time for World of Tanks!

Patent Process

My previous patent is still in progress. I responsed to a request late (due to my own fault) but thanks for a great gentalman in USPTO, I was able to continue the patent without extra fee. Now I just got another idea on games (will discuss more once I file the patent), and found that I have totally forget how to do it and have to re-learn everything. So I decide to blog it, in case me or others need this info. First, I suggest you go to this web site : http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/index.jsp and obtain a customer number. There are 3 catagories of patent, most likely yours will be a Utility patent (a design patent is for looks and plant patent is for plants). Here I only talk about Utility Patents. First, go to https://efs.uspto.gov/efile/portal/efs-unregistered, because I was unregisted. If you are like me, had an idea suddenly and don't have a customer number, this is the only way. Fill in the following forms: 1. Oath of declared field 2. Specifications and Claims: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/resources/general_info_concerning_patents.jsp#heading-14 3. Go to http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/accelerated/ae_accelerated_examination_tutorial.pdf and fill in SB28 (A petition to make an application special for accelerated examination), PREX.SRCH (search) and PREX.SUP.DOC (search results) 4. Submit using https://efs.uspto.gov/efile/portal/efs-unregistered

Tim Tebow

A great read on Tim Tebow, from WSJ