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Unlikely events in December 2009?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

LBE showed up at a Wal-Mart for an oil change early on 12 Dec 09. After waiting for 45 minutes, was told that Wal-Mart had no oil filters for his car, one of the ten most popular in the US, but that he could go out and buy one, which Wal-Mart could install. Back in 30 minutes with the filter, and two hours later Wal-Mart did, but misreported the car's mileage on the receipt, by a factor of two.

Hungry after the nearly four hour oil change, stopped by a local Hamilton, NJ Burger King, only to be told "out of meat."

Companies tend to have lean inventories during recessions, but no oil filters at Wal-Mart and no burgers at Burger King? In a world wherein a Burger King has no burgers, patent attorneys better wake up to the reality that
patent filings are a very controllable expense.

With the drop in filed patent applications in 2009, the USPTO is getting the picture.

We're not in Kansas anymore.

Full post as published by IPBiz on December 12, 2009 (boomark / email).