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Public radio recently reported a nine year old called 911 because her parents were trying to make her clean the bedroom. I couldn’t help understanding her frustration. Sure this is minor for adults, but it’s not minor for a child. She had a stressful situation. Why not call 9-1-1?

I wanted to call someone because of our most recent small business problem. We’ve been using WordPress for years. WP Engine (our host) has been a Blessing. However, in order for the business to grow, the website must move to Big Commerce. This is a huge problem because moving will take a lot of time and effort to accomplish.

I didn’t want to do it. There are SO many things small business owners have to do. Why would I create more work for myself?

When I finished whining and complaining like a nine year old girl, I created an account in Big Commerce. I couldn’t find reasons to keep our WordPress site. 🙁

Big Commerce has Google Shopping, better drop shipping integrations, and other features like Printful.

Thanks to Printful, we will soon be launching our Eat Some, Wear Some collection.

I still want to keep the comfort of WordPress. Plus I’m sure the nine year old wants her room the way she likes it.

Nevertheless, we will both become better people by exercising Self Control. This will be the last post until our Big Commerce store is ready.

I guess it doesn’t matter if a person is nine or ninety. We only grow to the threshold of our discomfort. It’s the True way to experience the Goodness in life.

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Five years ago we hired an intellectual property attorney for our recipes. A food industry can not patent ingredients, but it can patent how the recipe is created.

They researched the patent office and did not find any recipe like ours. So we submitted our application.

Two years later we were patent published.

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They have a luscious fusion of real orange and cream.

However, the examiner made us choose one of the four published recipes for the patent. We submitted our choice.

Three months later, the examiner issued a patent published “rejection” notice. It was the same patent she published. It turns out there are different rejections for a patent publication. She classified ours as a level three.

To paraphrase….. level three means: If random people would’ve met and thought about making our pastrie-s, they could have made the same thing.

I know what you’re thinking. Now what…..right? We had to pay for a rebuttal case because abandoned patent publications become Prior Art.

I needed to find the reason for her irrational behavior. We found out patent examiners get bonuses for rebuttals.

For five years we’ve been submitting rebuttals to the same examiner. For five years, the examiner issued a level three “rejection.”

I couldn’t help wondering why the examiner loved money more than helping people succeed.

Eventually our attorney advised us to appeal the examiner’s “rejections.” We won our appeal, but our case went back to the same examiner to process the appeal decision.

She decided to find a different reason to give it a level three “rejection.”

This time a bonus wasn’t involved.

My frustration turned into sadness for this patent examiner. For five years she’s done everything in her power to hurt people she doesn’t know. She hates herself more than she loves money. It’s clear the examiner doesn’t have True Joy in her life.

Thankfully we have options to protect our patent publication and get our patent.

More importantly, my heart has changed. I will not get angry at people who actively hurt others because their lives are full of darkness. I will choose to show Love and Kindness.

It’s the only way to help them heal.

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Can I call 9-1-1 too?

Well this is unbelievable……

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