From: stealthman@iglou.com   
      
   On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:04:43 -0400, STEALTHMAN    
   wrote:   
      
   [snip previous up to]   
   >     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.   
      
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   Stealthman   
      
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