For posts questioning whether any skilled practitioner would find the idea obvious in light of the prior art.
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Can 3-D Printing Materials be Patented After an Algorithm for Making Them is Published?
There is a growing concern in the open-source 3-D printing community that broad patent claims on materials for 3-D printing may hamper the open-source 3-D printing community's ability to innovate. ...
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How is US5693489 patent different from US4952496?
From what I can tell, the language in these patents are exactly same with the exception of the degree of detail outlined in the claims. Claim 1, 1a, and 1b of US5693489 appear to re-phrasing claims ...
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Why was CDARS patentable?
Since spreading large deposits among different banks has always been the only way to keep everything FDIC insured, and since that's been a common money management practice long before CDARS existed, ...
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Non-obviousness of user interfaces based on a new input device
The new Leap Motion device lets your devices "see" ten-finger motions in real-time 3-D. I see no published patent application yet, but the device is described on the website.
Microsoft has applied ...
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us7795768 - Patenting something already used elsewhere
This patent is for putting a gear on a spindle shaft. This has been done in automobiles, airplanes and machines for years. Putting a gear with spindle spacing on the inside and actual gears on the ...
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Is assembly of existing products a 'Manufacture'?
I have an 8x5 binder and have adhered one additional item to it. I've also modified the paper that fits this binder, which fixes an existing issue. The binder provides use for a specific audience. ...
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Can the non-obviousness of an invention be challenged if the difference to prior art is only the mathematical-statistical approach?
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Given a patent application describing a calculation using a maximum likelihood approach, and a piece of prior art that has the same goal but uses Monte Carlo simulation, is this sufficient to ...
