>The number of the “Express Mail” mailing label was placed on
>the paper(s) or fee(s) that constitute the correspondence prior
>to the original mailing by “Express Mail;”
当方（US）PTO なんかにもときどき電話しています。
"The number of the “Express Mail” mailing label"
is the tracking number for the original mailing by Express Mail.
The applicant places this number in the
"Express Mail Label No." box
in the form entitled
"Utility Patent Application Transmittal".
You can easily find this form (PDF) at the USPTO site.
という風に従来の出願方法は熟知しておりますが、
original mailing by Express Mail Tracking Numberは
original mailing by Express Mail
の前には解らないはずなので、この文章は変ですね。
>>27 【The present invention relates to a sex doll for providing a user with sexual satisfaction, and more particularly, to a sex doll designed to be a human female in appearance which comprises a mock-vagina cavity.】 http://www.fleshbot.com/archives/sex-patents-017074.php
a resilient device body having a tip portion, a flange and an intermediate side wall portion extending outwardly from said tip portion to said flange, wherein said flange is sized and shaped to encompass the female clitoris;
wherein, said tip portion is deformable and defines a vacuum producing upper chamber, and said intermediate side wall portion is outwardly convex comprising a plurality of protuberances and is substantially non-deformable, said intermediate side wall portion defines a vacuum resevoir lower chamber.
170：commonly owned U.S. Pat：2005/03/16(水) 02:18:50
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/0700_706_02_l_2.htm#sect706.02l2
DEFINITION OF COMMON OWNERSHIP
The term "commonly owned" is intended to mean that the subject matter which would otherwise be prior art to the claimed invention and the claimed invention are entirely or wholly owned by the same person(s) or organization(s)>/business entity(ies)< at the time the claimed invention was made.
If the person(s) or organization(s) owned less than 100 percent of the subject matter which would otherwise be prior art to the claimed invention, or less than 100 percent of the claimed invention, then common ownership would not exist.
171：commonly owned U.S. Pat：2005/03/16(水) 02:20:29
"what every CHEMIST should know about PATENTS" (p. 17) http://www.chemistry.org/portal/resources/ACS/ACSContent/government/publications/Chem_patent2001.pdf
> Claim. A statement that defines the invention protected by a patent.
> ・An independent claim defines an invention without referring to another claim, for example,
> "Claim 1. A compound represented by the following formula (I)...."
> ・A dependent claim further defines the invention recited in another claim to which the
> dependent claim refers, for example, "Claim 2. A compound according to claim 1, wherein X is
> hydroxyl."
> ・A multiply dependent claim depends on more than one claim, for example, "Claim 3. A compound
> according to any one of claim 1 or 2, wherein Y is a heterocyclic aromatic fivemembered
> ring structure."
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6,954,938 by IBM (uses "wherein" twice)
1. A portable carrier for a data storage medium, wherein said carrier is moveably disposed in a data storage and retrieval system, comprising:
an enclosure having a first side;
a first permanent magnet disposed in said first side;
a guidepin disposed on said first side and extending outwardly therefrom;
wherein said guidepin includes a first groove.
6,954,933 by Microsoft
6. A computer apparatus for sending a message via a high-performance message queue, comprising:
(a) a memory; and
(b) a processor connected to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to operate in accordance with executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
i. provide a message queue associated with a context;
ii. execute a user interface thread associated with said context;
iii. receive a request from said user interface thread to send a message to a second user interface thread;
iv. determine whether said second user interface thread is associated with said context; and
v. in response to determining that said second user interface thread is associated with said context, send said message from said user interface thread directly to said second user interface thread, thereby bypassing said message queue.
6,954,812 by HP
1. A round robin arbitration system, comprising:
a first round robin arbitration module having a first bit width and for partitioning a plurality of requests into a plurality of blocks of requests, selecting a block having one or more active requests using round robin arbitration, and generating a first index corresponding to said selected block; and
a second round robin arbitration module having a second bit width and for storing each request of said selected block, selecting each active request of said selected block using round robin arbitration, generating a second index corresponding to said selected active request, and generating a first signal for synchronizing operation of said first and second round robin modules, and wherein said round robin arbitration system has a bit width that is a product of said first and second bit widths.
「コ字形状」が、図面に記載されている形状そのままで、英文明細書中に使われています。 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5,461,391
Abstract: ... The second element is arranged in an area of the space under the defogging heater element and made up of a conductive strip assembly of various shapes such as -shape, a rectangular loop or loops, or a T-shape.
上の「such as -shape」が画像では「such as コ-shape」なんだが、一般的にUSPTOは変則文字を嫌がると思う。
ガイドライン（ポリシー）をご存知の方は教えてください。
Most preferably, the valve member comprises at least one substantially solid plate, preferably a disk, having at least one hole therein of section corresponding to the section of the chamber, the plate being rotatably mounted about an axis perpendicular to the section of the chamber at the valve zone so that a portion of the plate extends through said section of the chamber, alignment of the or each hole with the valve-zone of the chamber providing an opening through which the or each piston member can pass to provide the open condition of the valve, and alignment of a solid portion of the plate with the valve-zone providing the closed condition of the valve.
Preferably, fluid is admitted to or exhausted from the chamber by means of one or more ducts disposed around the chamber, the ducts being positioned so that movement of the or each piston member within the chamber selectively exposes volumes of fluid disposed between the piston member and the valve member to a respective duct and selectively inhibits fluid communication between a respective volume and the respective duct.
Referring initially to FIG. 1a, a system 10 illustrates a particular aspect of the present invention related to authenticating services between a client 20 and a server 30.
The server 30 may provide a plurality of services 32 which may be accessed by the client 20.
>204
普通の英文では、その文はこうなります。
Referring initially to FIG. 1a, system 10 illustrates a particular aspect of the present invention related to authenticating services between client 20 and server 30.
Server 30 may provide a plurality of services 32 which may be accessed by client 20.
普通の英語（原文一致）なら「the client number 20」となって、「a client number 20」とは言わないだろう。
私は以下のように理解しています。
Referring initially to FIG. 1a, a system （10） illustrates a particular aspect of the present invention related to authenticating services between a client （20） and a server （30）.
この文章のカッコを省略するとSpec文体が出来上がる：
Referring initially to FIG. 1a, a system 10 illustrates a particular aspect of the present invention related to authenticating services between a client 20 and a server 30.
