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Abandon All Hope Ye Who Prosecute - A Dantean Allegory of the United States Patent System
This ByteLaw® invention session presents a literary allegory that compares the complex United States patent prosecution process to the descent into Hell depicted in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. The author illustrates how the various legal and bureaucratic hurdles of the USPTO mirror the structured circles of torment and specific punishments found in the fourteenth-century poem. Key statutory challenges, such as subject matter eligibility and prior art, are personified as the mythological beasts Dante encounters, while the patent attorney serves as a modern-day Virgil. The narrative tracks an…
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