"US patent office seeks aid to spot bogus patent claims"

Found this news artical on the BBC just now, thought it might be of interest to you fellows over the pond.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19672986

... Can this be real?

If it's from BBC, then it's real. I find BBC to be really trust worthy

Is this real life? I can't believe my eyes. 

Bye bye, Apple. Was nice of you to make billions off of the slowing of technology.

I got an idea.  Fire everyone at the USPTO.  The aid will come in the form of people with proven logical reasoning skills.

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=10&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(apple.AS.+AND+20121025.PD.)&OS=an/apple+and+pd/10/25/2012&RS=(AN/apple+AND+PD/20121025)

you say bye bye apple, if this one gets through (UNIVERSAL CONNECTOR) then the system is corupt (like Logan said in his "has apple invented anything" vid, motorola has this covered...)