Questions relating to searching for or through patents and applications
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Online tool / database for finding entities by entering search keywords
I basically am trying to achieve a search for patents and/or entities (that own patents) containing some specific keywords. However, I would like to exclude a few entities from the search by using ...
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Patent Troll: Search Results with Image
There is a patent troll trying to get a number of websites to pay a license for a search that results in an image with text describing that image. The main claim might be roughly paraphrased as: A ...
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search text within a predetermined set of patents
Do you know of any patent search tool that allows you to search text within a predetermined set of patents? preferably free tool.
Or alternatively, somewhere I can download the text of the set of ...
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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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How many priority numbers can a patent have?
When I search patents at espacenet.com I see that some patent documents have multiple priority numbers. For example WO2010054132 has 4 priority numbers. (see bibliographic data). What does this mean? ...
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How to find status and citation information about a patent application
I'm looking for information on US patent application 2005/0015326.
How can I find out whether this application was granted or abandoned and in either case, whether any other patents have cited or ...
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What keywords do I use to get a similar patent to US7249263?
Patent US7249263 is about authenticating online users using a personality test to create a user behavior profile at registration on a website and then when the user logs in, he authenticates his ...
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Searching for US Provisional Patents
US8261231 "claims benefit to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/472,609, which was filed on Apr. 6, 2011... The contents of the above-identified applications are incorporated by reference in ...
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Prior Art Drawings for the beam delivery of a laser stent cutting system
I am interested in finding any previous prints or sketches on the beam delivery of the laser stent cutting system disclosed in US Patent #5,852,277.
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How can I be sure that I'm not infringing on anyone's patents?
My friends and I wanted to create an online advertising service that would allow someone to create an advert, pay a one time fee, pay per click of the ad and have the ad displayed on our site and the ...
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Prior art for speech detection in a data stream
Looking for prior art dated before 2010 regarding technology that determines that data being received at a mobile phone is speech if an accelerometer in the phone moves in a certain direction.
The ...
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Should certain concepts be avoided/included when searching for fluid dynamics patents?
I'm interested to find the range of patented art for apparatus / systems that control the shape/structure of fluid motion.
I'm interested in fluid separations, but dis-interested in
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Are examination and re-examination proceedings publicly available?
Is there any way to read the proceedings of a patent prosecution or a re-examination? Public would be great of course, but so far I have not found even a fee-based resource so I wonder if proceedings ...
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How do we check if a patent already exists for our idea?
The idea in question is for a gardening tool.
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Can willful patent infringement exist without prior notification?
In order for a company to accuse an organization of willful infringement, or allege that they are actively and knowingly infringing on a patent, must the patent holder first send the allegedly ...
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How long does it take a patent application to appear in the USPTO database?
I have several patents that I have filed which have been received by the USPTO, but have yet to appear when I search the USPTO online database.
How long is the delay between filing and appearance on ...
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How can I perform a global patent search for free?
I'm aware of several resources for searching the national or regional (e.g. EU) patent databases, but have found no tool for searching patents in all (or even several) countries at the same time.
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