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US patent class 717: software development, installation, and management
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To what extent is a Java Off-Heap management patent applicable?
This answer addresses the first question about patenting abstract ideas. Between the Supreme Court, the various judges on Federal Circuit and the appeals board at the USPTO this area is a vague and so …
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Knocking prior art, is it necessary?
No - the current trend is not to even mention prior art. Importantly, there is no requirement to be better that what was already done. If it isn't better, you might have a hard time selling it, but th …
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Microsoft Patent from 2008 for "Automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast"
It would be very broad - (which doesn't mean bad or invalid assuming it was novel and non obvious at the time of filing) without one of its key limitations.
All of the independent claims require a we …
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Is it possible to patent a new general method of optimizing some industrial processes?
A U.S. answer. Some things in the field you describe are patentable in the U.S. and some are not. Unfortunately, above novelty and non-obviousness, the current huge hurdle is abstractness. The law on …
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