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I am looking to use my UK-B application below to file a new PCT-B so that I do not have to prove novelty and inventiveness over the PCT1. 1) UK-A filed on 05/19 now withdrawn without being published ...

If I cancel my now published PCT, I understand it will be prior art since it is revealed to the public domain. However, what will be the date that this cancelled published PCT will be considered as ...

Have applied for patent on 2020-01-26 (priority date) in an EU country; after some back and forth it was accepted a few months ago. Want to extend it to other countries: US UK Germany Russia France ...

I have applied for a national patent and then I applied for a PCT claiming priority over the national patent and then I applied for a second national patent with improved content over the PCT just few ...

Would it be possible to get a patent for a data querying language similar to SQL? And, roughly estimate - how much money and time (from application to approval) would it take?

I'm starting a side business for educational software engineering videos and I absolutely love the overlay with transparency Udacity has on their videos. Today I discovered their process has a patent (...

I am looking into filing for a design patent, and have been consulting with a patent lawyer. The product I would like to patent is somewhat of a combination of a few basic shapes that I fear have a ...

I have a quick question. I own the website Pokevault.com that I have been running for 10 years or so. The "pokevault" name I created and has become very popular. Today I found another ...

I was looking at an American machine learning patent application the other day, and it detailed many specific parts. It goes through how they label the data to solve their problem, and how they train ...

The patent number is ZL 2011 2 0528654.3, it's a China patent. I think the number is the application number.

I am aware that certain algorithms to generate or read digital file formats can be patented. Patents on computer file formats I am attempting to reverse engineer a particular file format that I did ...

I have two interrelated apparatus like a socket and a plug. I'd like to draft one independent claim for each one. Is it possible to draft 3rd independent claims included both apparatus? And if it is ...

I saw today that Ransom E. Olds patented the stationary assembly line. However, I wonder how you would enforce a patent like this unless an employee of your competitor defected. Straight off the top ...

Before I tell more about the tool, it's developed by my colleagues, my role is to collect feedback from beta users and share it with the development team to improve the tool. Also, the tool is a work ...

I original had "further comprises turbine blades" in the specifications and claims now moving into an independent claim, is it ok to have "a turbine blades" or "a turbine ...

In order do make a final office action allowable, I need to amend independent claim 1 which broadly claims a rotating device specific to the art which would cover most potential infringements. The ...

In Australia, how does one usually deal with an objection that a claim lacks support under subsection 40(3). Say I am claiming a kettle with a specific type of heating filament. The claim has been ...

Base of problem Let's assume timelines as follows. Application examiner just makes error during search. He didn't see that in their database there is provisional patent application for same thing. ...

I read a US utility patent for some technology where the first claim was a method claim consisting of multiple parts a), b), c), etc. One of those parts specified the range of radiation in which the ...

Lets say I file a provisional patent at December 2020 with claim A. Some company B decides to file a application for non provisional patent with the same claim A at January 2021, because my ...

If an application is made in one of member states of Paris convention, then it is entitled to 12-month priority in member states. But what if applicant didn't pay the filing fee to the receiving ...

Applications made in member states of Paris convention benefit from 12-month priority. If I made my application in EPO (which, importantly, is not a state and not a member of Paris convention) does it ...

I am working on a home design patent with interlocking pieces, searched US patents and nothing came up not even similar; zero results, I was on Alibaba today looking around for an Amazon business and ...

I'm specifically interested in a particular plant patent. The patent describes the leaf size, but the plants sold (under the patented name by the owner of the patent) have a different leaf size. Is it ...

We have a situation in which we developed some software, where four previous members of our research group participated some time ago. Then they left the group, and said that from then on, they did ...

How can US20200206098A1 be patent-worthy when FR3037791B1 discusses the same things?

Google BigQuery patents-public-data.patents.publications table has a column named "application_kind". This is different than the kind_code column which is different codes for each country's ...

I found a company who is violating about 4 of my claims. But I like the direction they're going and I kind of wasn't going to sell it. So how would it go if I chose to work for them? do you think they ...

Have been making a product for a customer that owns the patent on the finished good. They have not been paying their bills and may go into bankruptcy. Can I sell the completed product that is in stock ...

Is there a minimum number of figures required to file a design patent? I see some patents filed with just 1 or 2 figures. Realize that it might not be great to defend the patent with fewer views but ...

If a technology was initially invented, manufactured and sold in the UK around 2008, but not patented, and a similar technology was later patented in the US in 2015 by a different company, can the ...

I run a startup company. I thought i came up with a great product and everything was great. Then one day i received an email of someone claiming to have a PPA of that same product and to cease selling ...

If I invent something specific then someone patents a similar thing later (let's assume a recent patent e.g. 2015), do I have the right to manufacture and sell products using the invention? And if so, ...

The USPTO Cancer Moonshot Patent project includes an interesting data set called the Orange Book, which links FDA drugs to patent numbers. Can anyone share other open source government patent to '...

Since 2010 recently deceased inventor (Pa. resident) received several significant US patents and filed several pending applications for US and international patents. No estate has been filed 8 months ...

I am contesting the list and order of inventors on the patent that my former company is filing. Firstly, they added many more "inventors" even though the idea and whole planning for testing ...

Can I sell in Canada a product patented the United States? Can I sell in Canada a product patented in the United States? How can I know the united States Patent has registered an international ...

To determine the earliest effective filing date of a US patent application: Can the filing date of an abandoned US patent application be the effective filing date? Example US 9,220,781 B2 (application ...

I am working at a company as a Data Scientist. I am doing research in AI. Basically I am given instructions like: make a benchmark of these technologies. Instructions are not specific. It is me who ...

Can I use scraps and parts of other products to build my own product? Like spools, pre welded metal, or bearings. New to all this, and I searched the threads, but I couldn't really find something like ...

I am attempting to compare two technologies, one of which is claimed to be covered by a licensed patent. The company says that it does not disclose it's licensed patents. My understanding is that ...

If a patent has been filled and there is the need to disclose concepts illustrated in a pending patent without an NDA, is it safe to do? if the listener wants to patent it instead of the inventor this ...

Suppose we have a previous application filed by Inventor A, less than a year ago. Now suppose we have a new application filed by Inventors A and B as joint inventors, but B works for A and his IP ...

I am considering a career change and I want to know what percentage of time is spent on writing vs other activities if you work as a patent prosecution lawyer in the United States? How do these time ...

Concerned with PPA “converting” to Non-Provisional I am in the process of drafting up a software Provisional Patent Application. I have an issue in that there are parts of the system that require ...

Concerned with PPA “converting” to Non-Provisional I am in the process of drafting up a software Provisional Patent Application. I have an issue in that there are parts of the system that require ...

I have an independent claim like this. 1. An X comprising: ... wherein the animal is at least one of: a cat, a dog, a lion not found in a brazilian zoo, and ...

I'm working on a claim. I have limitation that looks something like this. wherein the animal is at least one of: a cat; a dog; a lion found in a zoo; a tiger found in said zoo; or ...

After watching one too many ghost-hunter type shows, I had an idea for a detection device. I've built and tested a prototype and am looking to patent. I do understand an actual device isn't necessary ...

I filed a PCT application in 2019. I filed a US application without claiming priority from PCT application. My PCT application is not expired yet. In hindsight only I realised, some of the claims ...