World Surveillance Group Inc (fka WSGI)

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We'll just have to differ on your opinion that the PCT search results have nothing to do with the USPTO application.

You are aware that the USPTO was the International Search Authority (ISA) used to conduct the search for the ARGUS PCT application?

"The policy underlying the fee amounts seems to be that if the International Preliminary Examination Report ("IPER") was done by the USPTO, then there is little or no additional work to be done by the US Examiner who gets the national-phase file."
http://www.oppedahl.com/pubs/pctfaster.htm