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Patent Troll Alert PCT/US2016/031871
This is not a patent. It is a patent application. It may never become a patent and even if it does, it is very likely the claims will be greatly narrowed. In any case, whatever has been done prior to ...
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Is it allowed to include substances in a patent that will not be used in the final product but have very similar characteristics to the one that is?
Yes. There is no legal requirement that an inventor produce a product in the market (or even intend to produce a product in the market) to obtain a patent.
To put it in the terms used in the question, ...
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Is it allowed to include substances in a patent that will not be used in the final product but have very similar characteristics to the one that is?
If you knew that a range of alcohols would be effective, then for sure you should try to claim as broadly as possible. You have to be novel and non-obvious and super broad claims might make that more ...
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Are these patents unreasonably broad? US20130158984A1, US20130151240A1, US20130198196A1
I only quickly reviewed the patents. The applications you cited are now issued patents: US9087048B2, US9015037B2, US9176957B2. They seem to be specifically aimed at automatic fact checking of posted ...
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