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If you would like to contact me via e-mail, send an e-mail to robertplattbell at the domain name yahoo.com, inserting the “@” sign between robertplattbell and yahoo.com. NOTE: Due to various outages in e-mail service, some resulting from turf wars between Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL, I have two alternate e-mail addresses. Both have the same name, but at gmail.com and hotmail.com. Any e-mail sent to one or more of those three addresses should reach me, as they are forwarded to a single e-mail account. You will note I have not typed out the e-mail address here. Webcrawlers used by SPAMmers can “harvest” e-mail addresses from websites. Once harvested, an e-mail address can be sold to thousands of SPAMmers who in turn will send out hundreds of e-mails per day to my address. IMPORTANT: Please put the word “Patent” in the subject line if you send an e-mail. This will allow me to clearly identify that your e-mail is not a SPAM message. Thank you. The SPAM issue, like telemarketing and Junk Fax, threatens to destroy the very telecommunications infrastructure we have created. Be sure to let your Congressman and/or local representative know how you feel about these issues. Remember, telemarketers and SPAMmers make hefty contributions to political campaigns. PLEASE NOTE that we do not accept SPAM messages of any sort. Please do not add these e-mail addresses to any SPAM mailing lists. Please remove these e-mail addresses from any SPAM mailing lists if you have added. Any mailing list is a SPAM list if I have not provided explicit authorization to be added to such a list.
FAX Our Fax number is: (815) 642-9136 We use a virtual fax service, www.maxemail.com. We highly recommend this service for anyone, as it is less expensive that using a fax machine, and your faxes can be retrieved anywhere in the world in .pdf format by e-mail or website. Note that in the U.S. it is an actionable tort to send unsolicited fax messages (FAX SPAM) to a fax machine. I have sued offenders in the past and have collected damages. This website is not an invitation for unsolicited fax messages unrelated to Patent Prosecution or intellectual property issues. For more information on this issue, see http://www.junkfax.org/
PHONE Our Phone Number is (703) 474-0757 Note that we do not accept telemarketer calls at this number. OUr Phone numbers are listed on the U.S. Governemnt "do not call" list. (see: https://www.donotcall.gov/). This website is not an invitation to telemarketer calls. Please remove our name and number from your call list if you are a telemarketer and place us on your “do not call” list.
U.S. MAIL: Robert P. Bell
Note that we do not accept so-called “junk mail” at this address. We have requested that this address be removed from all junk mail mailing lists. Please do not add this address to any mass-mailing or junk mail mailing list. NOTE: We prefer to use US MAIL (United States Postal Service, or USPS, see: www.usps.com) over UPS, FEDEX, or other independent delivery services. UPS, FEDEX will not forward packages and letters, and moreover, usually will not leave parcels or letters if someone is not available to sign for them. It is disruptive to our practice to have to drive to a UPS or FEDEX hub to retrieve packages, and we will refuse to do so. If you need to send something overnight, use the U.S. Post Office’s EXPRESS MAIL service. USPS is cheaper and often provides better service than the independent carriers. I strongly suggest using USPS PRIORITY MAIL, as a very inexpensive alternative to FEDEX or UPS services.
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