From: stealthman@iglou.com   
      
   On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:33:23 -0400, STEALTHMAN    
   wrote:   
      
      
   >                 Page Four,  Application 972527 - Continued   
   >   
   >       ........................High quality surface configurations   
   >39   of electronic avoidance should be able to focus or   
   >       direct most, if   
   >40   not all energy into an area about five times the size   
   >       of the aircraft, or less   
   >   
   >                              [end of page four]   
   >   
   >                                     (10)   
      
          Page 5 was just a single patent claim trying   
   to protect all of the possible surface configurations,   
   which would never be allowed.   
         The patent examiner objected to the disclosure   
   on several grounds including no example of a complete   
   craft given.   
      
         I was in a pickle now, 4 years had passed since   
   I conceived of the invention, I had no chance of   
   being able to manufacture the items, more and more   
   news stories were coming out about invisible airplanes,   
   I felt I should be protected for flat surfaces by Paper   
   Number 11 and the filing of an application mentioning   
   it before the one year rule, but mistakes were piling up,   
   even causing the filing date to be Sept. 1979.   
      
         The Patent Office moves slow, with time between   
   office actions about 6 months on average then, and   
   even though I have no patience for waiting, I just   
   kept plugging along.   
      
        In August 1980 I had hurt my back at work, and   
   quit the job because of extreme pain in my knees   
   around the clock, and even with the hobby business   
   of making stained glass and lead lamps, was going   
   broke.   
      
        Natural gas went up in price, and my heating bill   
   ended up to be over $400 a month for two months,   
   and I had to abandon the house and move into one   
   room.   
      
         I had purchased a parallel line drafting machine   
   and the proper calendared drafting cardboard for   
   patent drawings, and began spending 3 or 4 hours   
   a day working on the drawings and a more detailed   
   disclosure to have ready when the 1981 application   
   reached a dead end.   
      
        I hid the work in the arm rest of the couch when   
   I was not working on it to keep my sons from seeing   
   it, more stories about the technology were in the   
   news as more time passed, clearly this was something   
   that had to remain secret as long as possible.   
      
         By autumn 1982 I had finished the long application,   
   made copies myself, wrote a declaration instead of an   
   oath declaring myself to be the sole inventor, and when   
   the office action came with final rejection of the faulty   
   and short 1981 application, I mailed the 1982 application.   
      
         My youngest son had graduated from college in   
   May and had taken a job in Austin, and agreed he and   
   I and my other son could share an apartment there.   
         So I just had a post office box as an address in   
   Pennsylvania, and loaded all belongings in the car   
   except for 10 boxes that I mailed to Austin, and left   
   Pennsylvania, arriving in Austin on December 3rd.   
      
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