Questions tagged [citation]
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Sort patents by citation number
I am looking for a way to find the most cited patents in a field as a method of getting to know the basics and state of the art fast while reading the minimum amount of material (even though I suppose ...
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Citing a blog in background information (not prior art)
For a USPTO utility patent, in my background section I would like provide a reference to an interview (the interview included in a blog post available at archive.org).
This is not a prior art ...
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What is family-to-family citations and how is it different from patent-to-patent citations?
I am working on Patent Ranking project where I need to consider patent citations as one of the metric.
I cant find the definition of family-to-family citations. And how is it different from patent-to-...
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Obtaining a document cited by the examiner of a US patent
In order to give proper credit in a scientific context, I'm trying to get the content of a document cited by the examiner in the process of examination of some US patents, both granted and expired.
Is ...
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Miscitation between patents due to human error?
In reference to the patents: US8159357 and its citation US7439887
The patents seemingly have nothing to do with one another, yet the patent examiner added the citation US7439887 (GIF decompression) ...
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Finding most important patent of a company
Is there a way to find most important patents for any company for example: Apple or any other company?
On google patents, I can search for patents assigned to a particular company, is there a way to ...
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Citation Explainination of Paragraph three under description
In reference to the patent: US20140267936
Applicant mention a citation :-
Another approach is disclosed in copending U.S. application Ser. No.
______, (Docket SPC0936PA) filed on even date ...
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Do I have to reference a patent application if the patent is already granted?
Do I have to reference a patent application in my patent if the patent has already been granted? Do I have to reference both the application number and the patent number?
Example: A patent ...
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Outcome of referencing earlier patents in your patent application
Most likely, I will reference MS Color Picker patent in my patent application. My software will use this color selection feature.
If my patent gets accepted, will MS (or anyone else whose patent I ...
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Where to find a citation of my patent in another patent?
I can see that another patent has cited my (then pending) patent under the References Cited section, with a * indicating that the citation was added by the examiner.
Where can I find out if/how this ...
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Get the citations of a given patent programmatically from lens.org
Using a web browser, I can manually get the citations of a given patent using lengs.org as follows:
Visit: https://www.lens.org/lens/search?q=US7723099B2&preview=true
Click "Cited Works"
For each ...
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When did patents start citing each other?
I can't find patent citations on patents from 1836. Was there a specific date or year that citations were added to patents?
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A bulge in patent's citations
I was investigating the possible spike in the patent's out-degree. I observed a very strange behavior that patents citing 11 papers is much more than expected. I was wondering if there was some sort ...
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Erroneous citatations [duplicate]
In reference to the patent: US26919
A number of non-firearm patents cite this patent but they actually refer to the reissue patent R26919 in the text. This is probably a common problem when the ...
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How can I see how many citations a patent holder has received on their patents?
I'm mostly interested in USPTO patents, but I am curious about any other patents as well. I don't want to count myself, and Google Scholar mixes up patent citation with paper citations in their total ...
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Why Cite a Patent when filing for a Design Patent? - Example
Why would one cite another patent, specifically when applying for a design patent (non utility)?
I have seen design patents that have been cited by other patents. But also design patents that cite ...
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Hello. I would like to know the 1972 British patent number for the Terfenadine drug composition assigned to Merrel Dow. Thank you
This British patent was cited in: Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. and others vs. HN Norton & Co. Limited, United Kingdom House of Lord Decisions [1995] UKHL 14 on 26th of October 1995. Thank you.
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Download bulk citation data for pre grant USPTO patents
Where can I download bulk data for citations that come from pre grant patent publications? I tried to find it in the USPTO bulk data page and also on PatentsView but no luck. I am sure I'm missing ...
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Patent citation
I wonder if it legal to use a procedure of a patent as a procedure in my research as it is! or otherwise, should I modify it and cite the patent with mentioning the paper? If it is legal, How can I ...
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How is a magazine article cited in a detailed description?
I am describing a modification of an existing optimizing algorithm as part of a method claim, and wish to avoid describing the details of the existing algorithm.
What is the correct format for ...
