USPTO Won't Accept Upside Down Faxes; Demands Resends
Found on BNet on Wednesday, 03 February 2010
After all, what do you do if someone inadvertently fed a page upside down into the fax machine? You simply turn the page over or, if you get an electronic version, use the reader software to rotate it. Apparently this is not within the standard operating procedures of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. No, if your fax comes in upside down, they send you a message in return saying that they can't accept it and to re-fax.
The USPTO has to manage patents and inventions, not making them. I can't imagine what would happen to the universe if the patent office would start being creative and produce cunning solutions for drastic problems, like, for example, rotating pages by 180 degrees. On the other hand, this plan might be already patented.