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Are Google patents preventing new email client products?

The standard answer is to engage an attorney to do a freedom to operate search and give you a written opinion. This presupposes that you know what you are building and how it works in some detail. The ...
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Requesting prior art on Google machine learning patent (US 2014/0180986)

These guys proposed droupout in 1992. The differences are that Clay and Séquin dropped only units not inputs, and that they did not normalize the learned weights after completing training. "Fault ...
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Requesting prior art on Google machine learning patent (US 2014/0180986)

I would suggest that any good book on Model Theory, such as those by Kreisel, Krivine, and W. Hodges, from the 1970s through 1990s, would show that the size of the proof space is in general inversely ...
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Does google patents update patent application publications that have been amended?

NO Google Patents and other sites that allow for searching patents show publications. Once published, a particular publication is a static thing - like a book. Following the normal course, patent ...
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Why are USPTO and Google Patent Search citation numbers so different?

The @the Europeist comment is correct - Google is showing references from patent publications. Technically they are not really citations until they appear printed in a patent. It looks like Google is ...
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Can I search for more than just the top 1000 results using Google's Patent Search Engine?

I would recommend The Lens. It allows download of either 1000 or 10,000 patents via their "Collections" feature. A found a blog post that goes through it step-by-step. They have two alternate formats ...
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Are Google patents preventing new email client products?

While a freedom to operate opinion from an attorney is best, you can do some of the work yourself. You made a good start identifying the specific Google patents. You need to read the claims to see ...
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Best way of transfering money to patent offices

In most countries, it is mandatory that patent applications are filed by patent attorney or agent registered in that country on behalf of inventor. For those countries means of payment of fees from '...
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Parallel Programs for GPU

The mere fact that nVidia provides CUDA for developing GPU-based programs does not absolve others (like yourself) of any potential patent infringement. If you make, sell, use, import, etc., something ...
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Parallel neural networks

If the application is granted, then it may be enforced against any software developed since the priority date (December 24, 2012). If the methods you are implementing were publicly disclosed by anyone ...
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