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Location-based marketing - Providing ticketing and access to attractions. (Smart Destinations) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
AN OVERBROAD PATENT ON Enhanced marketing responsive to customer path data between attractions - This application from Smart Destinations, Inc seeks to patent the idea of...Enhanced data collection ...
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Does the GS1 MCS industry guideline use US patent 8228198?
In March, 2012, all of the UHF Gen2 RFID chip manufacturers agreed to support Multi-vendor Chip-based Serialization (MCS), a voluntary implementation of a GS1 guideline for encoding 96-bit Serialized ...
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How to determine Canadian patent life-time?
Is patent CA 2561773 A1 still valid or pending?
Event shows: dead in 2008
Please inform of risk of patent infringement.
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Dependent claim from invalid independent claim
I'm following an Inter Partes Review where the petitioner is trying to invalidate every independent claim of a patent based on prior art.
If this is successful, some dependent claims will remain. ...
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EDA software (IC design)
Looking for prior art on this:
http://www.google.com/patents/US20130290834
Best answered by IC design people who use that kind of software.
Basically looking for what's in the main figure, two ...
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Software patent implementations license
Given that a software patent can be implemented in different ways, languages and platforms then what are the license requirements of the implemented pieces of software?
Is it possible that the patent ...
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Is there a Patent-to-English dictionary?
On another site, I learned that many words in U.S. patents have very specific meanings, subtly different from their usual meanings in English.
For example, "comprising" is different from "consisting ...
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Prior Art US 20130177891 A1
Audio-visual learning system
US 20130177891 A1
Filing date: July 2, 2012
I am searching for Prior Art on the application listed above.
Below is prior art that I am aware of.
The claims in patent ...
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How much of this profiler patent (US Patent No. 8,516,467) distinguishes over prior art?
A lot of this patent feels like it has prior art in existing tools such as disassemblers and profilers.
Patent text
Claim 1
A method for detecting a time complexity associated with an ...
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Legal ramifications of including research algorithms in software products sold to clients
If I am a UK-based software vendor or 'software as a service' company, what are the legal implications of including academic research algorithms in products sold to European and international clients? ...
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Can priority be claimed under Paris convention from withdrawn or refused patent application?
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 ...
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Unable to get this patent ( number 75086) detail
I am trying to look into the patent mentioned on this Art Deco: Original années 1930 Betel motor car-art deco metal. Ebay has sold many in past bearing the same Patent number.
As can be seen the ...
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Can an abandoned patent affect an issued one ? There's a twist
Patent A was filed formally, March-13-2010, published Nov-2011
Patent B was filed provisional, March-14-2010, then formal-filed Mar-2011
The patents covered some similar areas, but Patent B spec was ...
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Claim value and detectability of infringement
In days of yore, mechanical inventions had physical embodiments and patent infringements were visible to the eye.
Fast forward to the age of information where methods and devices to solve problems ...
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What Exactly Is It That Is Covered By This Resource Mechanic Patent?
In reference to the patent: US7216870
Does this mean that one cannot create a game that allows players to gain a resource when playing a card? Or would making resource accumulation as part of a ...
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Application .dot templates for PPA and Non-Provisionals Patents
Ideally, there would be a .dot files (for provisional / non-provisional patent applications) that would take care of formatting details per the USPTO spec. In addition would be helpful if the .dot ...
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Claims of Patent Application WO2017168412A1 are cited from previous research papers
In reference to the patent: WO2017168412A1
The claims of patent application are all void, it is a group of replicated and cited idea from multiple published research papers
The idea of using Metal ...
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HELP SAVE Information Retrieval for future generations from a FACEBOOK Patent
HELP SAVE Information Retrieval for future generations.
This application from FACEBOOK seeks to patent distributed database query engine for low query latency database analyses.
10 minutes of your ...
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How to evaluate IT contract for patent and invention content
If I want to work for an organization, and agree to something along the lines of:
10. Inventions. Except as otherwise provided in any prior written agreement(s) between the
Employee and ACME, ...
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Previous work in 2007
In reference to the patent: WO2015172178A1
I would like to introduce one article published in 2007 with the same claims:
Surfboard Instrumentation
https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/cpa/article/view/...
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Prior publication ignored
In reference to the patent: US 6,981,040 B1
The specification of this patent seems to follow:
Gio Wiederhold, "Customer Models for Effective Presentation of Information"; Position Paper, Flanagan, ...
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Prior art request US20130195410
In reference to the patent: US20130195410
This was described in a 1989 Paper in Physical Review Letters Volume 62 Number 1 published 2 January 1989 in a paper titled "Transverse Localization of Light"...
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'Technical effects' of software patents for eligibility
For patent eligibility of software patents in many countries including EU there is a requirement of 'technical effects' on the hardware device. These 'technical effects' are technological advances or ...
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Network Protocol Conversion — Prior Art Request for US 2005/0220286 A1 (Verizon)
https://www.google.com/patents/US20050220286
The independent claim is drawn primarily to protocol conversion of the data link layer and the application layer of a communication without conversion of ...
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Does [CORMEN90] demonstrate prior art for this order statistic tree patent?
In reference to the patent: US6735595
This patent appears to describe various implementations of what is usually known in the computer science community as an order statistic tree. In particular, ...
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Prior Art for US20130128968 A1?
Please help find Prior Arts for US20130128968 A1.
Publication number US20130128968 A1
Publication type Application
Application number US 13/680,740
Publication date May 23, 2013
Filing date ...
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Prior Art - probe to genomic location is a map query
In reference to the patent: US20140256789
Aren't they just performing a query to a location on the map of the genome and describing a feature that exists at a given location? The patent above covers ...
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Prior art for Vacuum Testing of Power Supply
In reference to the patent: US6570389
This patent claims a method of vacuum testing of power supplies, and it was filed in June 2001.
I am wondering whether this is a standard procedure in the ...
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Possible Prior Art for PCT/US2013/057893
It seems that there exists prior art for PCT/US2013/057893 by Game Concourse, Inc. (filed Sep 3, 2013)
Can someone refer to US 13/068,782 by Wesley Boudville (filed May 16, 2011) and confirm the same?...
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Prior art from 35 years ago: context-sensitive data-flow analysis
To me it seems that what this application is, in effect, claiming is the use of 1-context-sensitivity to increase the precision of data-flow analyses for factory methods. This is the most trivial ...
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Prior art for a GC scheduler with an adaptive free-memory threshold?
Patent: US 8,166,269
Assignee: Oracle
Priority Date: 11/5/09
Prior Art: Search Google Prior Art search for 8,166,269
I'm having trouble figuring out whether Oracle is claiming to have invented the ...
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Generic Learning Management System Claims
I am surprised to see the claims made in US patent 6544042. There are multiple open-source LMS and proprietory apps that help administer online tests. Can the claims in this learning express claims co-...
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US 2011/0107630: waterfall flip-book cards
Patent application US 2011/0107630 claims a type of flip book greeting cards. Here is claim 1:
1. A greeting card comprising:
a multi-panel greeting card body;
a flip book panel operatively engaged ...
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beelinereader patent coverage
I am a fan of beelinereader, I want to use same idea to implement a reader app,in their website it is written that their technology is patented as here https://patents.google.com/patent/...
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Does my Proprietary Agreement with a solely owned Inc. Division extend to all divisions
Background
I worked for a US based defense contractor by the name of Meggitt Defense Systems, Inc. (MDSI).
Because the parent firm, Meggitt Plc was British, MDSI had to be incorporated with it's own ...
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Why Aren't Patent Expirations Listed for USPTO Gazette Vol. 1454 No. 2?
Reviewing 300+ issues of the Official Gazette Of The United States Patent And Trademark Office, from 2014 to present I noticed that only one issue — Vol. 1454 No. 2, from September 11th, 2018 — ...
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How can I extend my protection to alternative embodiments?
I missed some alternative embodiments of my invention which can be considered as well known for the skilled person. I filed few national applications claiming priority over the first one. A year after ...
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When an unnecessary inventor is listed in EP & US patent
In the US and EP, if an unnecessary inventor who has not contributed to the invention at all is listed as one of the inventors, can it be invalidated, challenged, or restricted exercise?
In this case,...
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Can a protocol for detection of acupuncture meridian blockage be patented?
I have developed an easy to use way to detecting blockages in the Chinese acupuncture meridian systems. Can this set of protocols be patented? If so, how do I go about doing it. Your comments and ...
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Recordation of Patent Grant
This question is related to
Who gets a "patent grant cover" from the USPTO?
Does the "ribboned copy" get sent to overseas inventor/assignee (at recorded overseas address) by USPTO if such ...
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Before the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999, were inventors allowed to request pre-grant publication?
Before the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999, were inventors allowed to request publication of their patent applications before the grant date? If so, did many choose to do so?
The following ...
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Can you file a continuation immediately after filing an application?
If I have a disclosure that lacks unity of invention, I believe that I can file an application, wait for a restriction requirement, elect one set of claims and then file a divisional with the second ...
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independent component analysis (ICA) algorithms: invention or discovery?
1) Under the current patent laws (US/EU/wherever) are new ICA algorithms the discovery of mathematical truths or the invention of new procedures to identify independent components of a mixed signal ...
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Prior Art Request: Asynchronous Live Streaming from a mobile phone, US9445150
I came across a pair of granted patents that seem rather frivolous, and I'd appreciate some help digging up prior art around them. Priority date on both is April 19, 2013.
https://patents.google.com/...
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PCT with US RO — how to file the IDS?
Last month I filed a PCT application with the US as the receiving office, using EFS-web. I uploaded everything (I think) correctly and paid my microentity fees. I want to now file an information ...
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patent for an interface of functions presently not in use in any mobilepp
Hi i believe i have developed certain functional usage/interface in an app which are unique.
to explain - they arent invention or technological breakthrough. But would fall under the purview of user ...
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Utility patent and method patent
In the course of solving a problem a new methods was developed. To support the method, a novel measurement device was required and developed. Assume that the
methods
device
must work together ...
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Patentability due to conflicts between dependent and independent claims
For the patenting of one idea, found an existing granted patent which is slightly similar, though seems to not cover the entire idea.
One aspect though is not so clear whether it will be an issue or ...
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Data Processing in urban design
Can we patent integrated business processes combined and rearranged into a single business process flow?
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A feature in Software Product
Can a feature available in a software product patented? For eg, there are various Core Banking Systems and will they be patenting these features?
Then how are other products able to give the features?...