Ha! SPOT ON DISCUSSION !
(I) took up inventing, on an assembly line job that had lots of 'blank brain' time. Next, I rented an OFFICE SUITE, in seedy downtown Hayward (pop. 210, 000).
My patent attorney, well, he was a quiet drunk: they don't always show their colors, publicly. But he was pretty good lawyer, later: HE BEAT ME IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT.
But it's important to take such matters, of the past, in a light hearted, even humorous manner.
Heck, think of the (little) stories I could tell. Extorted for Cash, by a 'crack-head', all while assembling and proof reading my own US PATENT APPLICATION.
(PLS SEE: US 20030172205 )
One maybe clever thing I did, to get some document contents organized: Presented a flow-chart style drawing, instead of a table, that way a set of directional arrows can be included, for associating various sub-system components.
In fact, there are some (mechanical) Patent work that deals only with associated 'components', and interconnection, with virtually no care for actual device. (Especially in nanotech world).
At any rate, my special interest has a lot to do with the 'run-down' cities, doing business anyway, in spite of some 'indignities', (like crime risks).
NICE TOPIC, really.
Rick