I have no interest in defending a two-year Letter of Invention. However something is not adding up about the article's findings:

On April 25, 2003, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (hereinafter, “CDC”) filed an application for a United States (Application Number US46592703P...
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Looking for the 2007 patent #7220852:

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Now emerges #60465927

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There are two, the first is the 2010 patent in the article. The second patent #7220852 is from 2007:

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Interestingly that also resorts to application #60465927 of April 25, 2003 which is a no-show on the search engine.

Looking to the other application #10822904

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I am probably giving you a headache. So here is my point. If I wish to verify that the CDC was ahead of my Letter of Invention by a month I will have to call a clerk at the Patent office and get the search engine up to snuff.