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I am seeking to provide information that invalidates claims in a specific patent, how do I provide this information to the patent office?
I have specific information as a deep matter expert on a topic that invalidates most, if not all, claims of a patent application currently pending. Some this information may be missed by the patent ...
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How To Tell If Applicant Was Granted a Patent
So if there is no patent, only a publication number how do I tell if they were ever granted a patent or if they were, where is it? I'm looking at publication # EP2526617.
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What exactly is Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH)?
The Wikipedia page on this does not have much information, nor any mention of prosecution. A few questions related to this come to mind:
What is PPH and how does one use/benefit from it?
Who is ...
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At what point can a patent lawsuit become reality?
Related to this question on 3D Systems patent expiry, it appears that 3D Systems are raising a patent infringement lawsuit on the basis that Kickstarter and Formlabs:
knew or should have known ...
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What is a request for continued examination?
I have received a final office action with a rejection. My patent attorney advised going for an RCE (request for continued examination). How does it work? and how many RCE can one request?
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Has any research or prototype designs been done on patent #US5179470, other than trucks?
Have any attempts been done on prototyping and testing of patent Aerodynamic vehicle mirror head (#US5179470) on any road vehicles, other than trucks?
Because I am not able to find any specific ...
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What is an “Office Action”, and what types of “Office Actions” are there?
I have seen this term used often and have a vague idea as to what it means, but since I have not seen this term used in other fields I thought I would ask here. Is any response from the Patent Office ...
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Can I patent my logic for a pantry management system?
Is it possible to patent my own logic for determining if pantry items have gone bad in a software system for managing items?
I don't expect there to be a god-given algorithm for this logic, but if I ...
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Are Software Development Methods patentable?
For example, if something like a method of Agile programming practices were singularly developed before they were popularly used, could a company have patented the 'system' including the parts that ...
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Is it practical for a novice to successfully file a patent without hiring a patent lawyer?
I am an undergraduate student in the US, and have come up with a (hopefully) patentable idea independently of my studies. The upside of that is the university cannot claim any rights to my invention; ...
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Revising a poor English translation of a US national phase application based on a foreign language PCT application
A patent application was originally drafted in a language other than English and filed in a country other than the US. It was subsequently translated into English and made a PCT application and ...
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Can a YouTube video be submitted as prior art?
I'm trying to determine whether there is evidence that definitively confirms that a YouTube video can be submitted as prior art.
If there is an example of one being used as the grounds for rejecting ...
