About Siberkhem Patents
Francis “Fran” Lorin has been involved in patent research at various levels since at least 1990. From July 1990 to April 2001, Fran worked as an examiner at the USPTO (located at that time in Crystal City, VA). He left the USPTO to venture away from the structured chaos of the USPTO, to attempt to grapple with various patent-related issues that appear to present “voids” in the field that need to be filled. One of those “voids” is patent classification, the foundation of an organized, efficient structure for accurate information retrieval. One way to “fill” this void is to present a patent search course covering the methodology involved in a thorough patent search.
Fran has experience as a Performance Engineer, having worked at W.H. Sammis Coal-Based Power Plant, located in Stratton, Ohio, about 20 km north of Steubenville, doing various tasks related to evaluating the performance of power plant equipment, such as pumps boilers and turbines, etc. Fran began this work after graduating with a BS in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA in 1980.
In 1985, Fran joined General Physics Corp. in Columbia, MD, where he cowrote portions of the 3-phase Chemical Laboratory Technician Training Manuals for then-client, PEPCO, located in Washinton, DC. This large manual was also used as a basis for a similar training program for BG&E, of Baltimore.
Fran tried to go it on his own as Cyberchem Company in 1988, but got back to a “regular job” with the USPTO in July 1990 to correct a financial matter. In April, 2001, he went out on his own again, this time as “Siberkhem” (a homonym of the previous Cyberchem, which became trademarked as well as used for a character in manga)
At this time, he is bringing together his technical resources and skills to provide a concrete, usable, and standardizable system for patent searching, analysis, and organizational framework for their retrieval.