In the equivalent of two and a half workdays, that examiner must analyze the application and then search through all the existing documents in that field to find any instances of prior art (see " In the path of an avalanche").

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Kluger would go into a document management system at the law firm and search through the subject lines of the documents to see what transactions were being worked on by the firm.

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The programs sift through old and new documents and e-mail far more efficiently than the search software that comes preinstalled with Microsoft Windows and the Outlook e-mail program.

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