User talk:JohnHiett

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Hello, JohnHiett, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! --Edcolins (talk) 19:08, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. Doing so helps everyone understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. --Edcolins (talk) 19:08, 7 October 2011 (UTC) Edcolins: I appreciate the constructive feedback and clarifications, I would appreciate the same on the deletions.

Adding promotional material
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, you may be blocked from editing. --Edcolins (talk) 23:15, 7 October 2011 (UTC) Edcolins, please explain how stating the facts of what the act did not change is disruptive? How is this "soapboxing, promotional or advertising material" what advertising material? what soapboxing? what is being promoted? the facts? Wikipedia is not censored? Please be more specific, so that I can understand. General comments are not constructive.

Fee setting authority
The "fee setting authority" is the Director of the USPTO.--Nowa (talk) 00:02, 10 October 2011 (UTC) Since now they say "we may not offer" in their news release, Is the director a plutocrat or what?
 * What they mean is that they are not allowed to offer microentity fees until the Director goes through the process to reset the fees according to their costs. As far as I know, they have to offer the fees, but they need to meet some requirements first.--Nowa (talk) 00:59, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

I wonder what those "requirements" are. When I read the USPTO news release where they said "we may not offer", it appeared like they basically are considering dismissing the 75% reduction entirely, or made it as if it may not get offered at all, thus rendering the 75% meaningless.