Examiner

Examiner or The Examiner can refer to:

Occupations

Newspapers

Kiama Examiner

The Kiama Examiner, later published as The Examiner, was a weekly English language newspaper published in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia between 1858 and 1862. It was first published on 24 April 1858, more than forty years before the federation of Australia.

History

The newspaper was first published in 1858 by Robert Barr. Robert Barr, a printer, sold the newspaper by public auction on 20 August 1859 to W. Vance, after damages of £200 were awarded against him for libel. Later the same year William Irving acquired the newspaper and from January 1860 the newspaper was published twice per week, on Wednesday and Saturday.

The last issue of the paper as the The Kiama Examiner appeared on 10 December 1859, and the first issue of the paper under its new title The Examiner, appeared a week later on 17 December 1859. The last issue of the paper appeared in June, 1863. The paper was then absorbed by the Illawarra Mercury.

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) hosted by the National Library of Australia in cooperation with the State Library of New South Wales.

Patent examiner

A patent examiner (or, historically, a patent clerk) is an employee, usually a civil servant with a scientific or engineering background, working at a patent office. Major employers of patent examiners are the European Patent Office (EPO), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), and other patent offices around the world.

Duties

Patent examiners review patent applications to determine whether a claimed invention should be granted a patent. In general, the most important task of a patent examiner is to review the technical information disclosed in a patent application and to compare it to the state of the art. This involves reading and understanding a patent application, and then searching the prior art to determine what technological contribution the application teaches the public. A patent is a reward for informing the public about specific technical details of a new invention, so the work of a patent examiner includes searching prior patents, scientific literature databases, and other resources for prior art. Then, an examiner reviews a patent application substantively to determine whether it complies with the legal requirements for granting of a patent. A claimed invention must meet patentability requirements of novelty, inventive step or non-obviousness, industrial application (or utility) and sufficiency of disclosure.