USPTO blues

If there was ever a web application crying out to be made its at the US Patent and Trademark office.

You CANNOT understand what you've got to do in order to get a patent without ringing the inventors assistance line, and from the UK thats no joke.

There is some software to do electronic filing but it is only used for utility patents not for design patents.

I'm going to have to spend some time over the weekend trying to figure it out. When this process is over (maybe when we're away) I'll post a how-to.