There is no statutory requirement that formal logic be adhered to during examination of patent claims. Examiners and patent practitioners are free to use a wide variety of discussion and argument ...

"If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperilled in a hundred battles." —Sun Tzu, The Art of War The enemies of rational thought can take one of several overlapping forms, ...

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