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Apparently, it’s not “Boogie Woogie Land”

Recently ran across one of the most egregious examples of multiple 112(b) violations in an issued patent. I believe it's a PPH allowance, but something went very wrong in translating the claim. I can't post it in its entirety without "outing" the Examiner of record, which is not my intention. Mistakes happen. I'm more curious about how much oversight there is on a first action allowance in general, and on PPH cases.

Here is claim 1, but slightly paraphrased and shortened to protect the Examiner's identity. I've removed any reference numbers from the claim, and the material in brackets summarizes easily searchable phrases, while the ellipses skips over additional detail (that, admittedly, probably contain their own 112 issues).

>device that allows [...activity...] intelligently and automatically [without human intervention], more specifically, this device is provided with means for [detecting entry], allowing ... power saving. CHARACTERIZED because the device is formed with at least one proximity sensor ..., and it is embedded to an integrated circuit corresponds to a converting driver responsible for converting and displaying information on a display.

A lot of posts in the past few years from people realizing that a lot of Gen X are the same ages now as the girls on Golden Girls when it started (early 50s).

If a show about a group of Gen X friends (and maybe a boomer parent of one) were on tv now, would you watch?

If you were in charge:

Where would it take place?
Would you have them all be roommates, or come up with a different style?
Who would you cast?
Share some story ideas for episodes.

Who else here is broken like me? I was at an awards presentation last night and the speaker was talking about the positive traits of one of the recipients, and referred to his “demeanor.”

I didn’t hear anything else he said, because all I could hear in my head was Uncle Leo repeating back, “Demeanor?” I was like Brett when he hears desperado.

What ordinary words stop you in your tracks bc of a Seinfeld episode?