On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:04:43 -0400, STEALTHMAN <stealthman@iglou.com>
wrote:

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    I got it all together and mailed in registered mail
on December 22, 1978. and the next day went on
the trip to visit the relative in the hospital, and stayed
there 3 weeks.

    I couldn't stay any longer, I had to go home and
pay bills, and I was anxious to get the receipt for
the patent application

                                 (2)

       I saw the doctor in the hospital hall that day, and
he said my relative was dying from some blood disease
they could not pin down, the heart bypass had been
successful, but the two months of refusing to get
out of bed was causing problems.

      I kind of ignored the doctor's diagnosis, and told
him I had to go home for a day and would be back,
and I drove the 400 miles home that evening.

      I got up the next morning, got my mail, paid
some bills, and that afternoon drove back to the
hospital, I had the receipt for the patent application,
but had to deal with the issue of the relative.

      That evening late the doctor came in the room
and said a blood specialist had put the relative
on cortisone, and that had stopped the progression
of the blood disease, so I began the effort to get
the relative out of bed a few times a day, increasing
activity slowly.
      The patent application was on my mind, and 
I knew that by filing the application without a good
disclosure and claims I was hurting myself, but 
the important thing was security and seeing that
the technology got implemented by the USA first.

      After 3 or 4 weeks I got the relative walking
some, out of the hospital and into a nursing home,
and then saw what I believed to be the cause of
the blood problem, when therapists were moving
the legs of the relative, breathing and sudden body
responses made me think blood clots were breaking
loose in the legs and passing through the heart into
the lungs.
      I didn't say anything to the doctor, any time I
offer any suggestion, I usually get poo-pooed.
 
      But after a couple of weeks in the nursing
home, I got to take the relative home, I got a
prescription for a wheel chair and walker, and
after 4 days told the doctor we needed to go
to stay at my house for a while.

      We made the trip, getting home with a foot
of snow on the ground, I got the relative in the
house, and made a bed and installed a commode
on the same floor, and thought I would be able
to do my regular work upstairs, and work on
the patent office responses when they came.

     It wasn't all that simple, the relative played
the baby, asking for all things to be brought 
to the bed, but when I went upstairs to work,
I could hear a lot of activity downstairs.
     I tried to encourage more and more sitting
and walking, but it seemed being waited on
was more desired.

     Then after a couple more weeks I got an
answer from the patent office, not a standard
office response, but decisions about some of
my unusual requests from an assistant to the
Commissioner.

     I had requested that paper #11 be accepted
in place of a formal disclosure, and that was
denied and a requirement that a formal disclosure
with claims be submitted within 3 months.

     I had requested that I be allowed to use a
desk in a secure area in the patent office to
prepare the disclosure and drawings, and that
was denied.

     I had requested that my application be 
reviewed by the military as I felt it should be
kept secret, and was told that the review 
did not find anything about paper #11
contents to be reason for secrecy, and,
that being it was more than a year since
patent 4,066,226 had issued, and that
paper #11 was in the file, and the file
had been available to the public, the
assistant Commissioner questioned the
advisability of continuing the application.

      Patent 4,066, 226 had issued in Jan. 1978,
and I had mailed the application for "Electronic
Avoidance Configurations" on Dec. 22, 1978,
I didn't see why I that did not give me priority,
and met the requirement of filing an application
within the legal one year time limit.
 
     I assumed that as long as no other entity
filed an application for all flat surfaces by 
the end of January, 1979, then at least no
other entity besides me could meet the 
one year rule of patent law.
     I was totally in the dark about any other
person working on radar avoidance, except
for the brief discussion with the guy at the
electric store in Johnstown in 1976.

     But I knew I had to now put on paper
the theory behind flat surfaces as being
not much different than a spherical or
even a parabolic surface at many times
the diameter of the surface from a radar
system.

     I began working on the disclosure with
a typewriter and making crude drawings 
of the shape surface configurations that
the theory required.

     I was interrupted  many times by the
relative's needs, but slowly made some
headway with preparing the missing parts
of the patent application.

                        (3)

Stealthman