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Prior art request: US7263687 (Object-oriented enumerated type facility)
Please take a look into US7263687 patent prosecution. Patent examiner already addressed this patent not being novel over "Effective Java Programming" which was mentioned in patent description (...
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PRIOR ART REQUEST: US20150262138 “Tip Button” (for Bitcoin)
Principal engineer at ChangeTip here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimlyndon). I actually built the first ever bitcoin tip button for content creators.
The tip payment page (Tip.me) was actually ...
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JP Morgan patents "basic app communication"
On cursory review, I don't see anything in the claims that is non-abstract, except, potentially, the organization of the functions.
The deeper issue relates to a quote from the article:
"How was ...
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Comixology patent vs. presenting comicbook panels sequentially
I believe the application cited has been granted as the US patent US9672585B1. The assignee is Amazon Technologies, Inc. Claims are often changed considerably between an application and subsequent ...
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How to make a prior art request for a granted patent or patent application?
From the USPTO site -
35 U.S.C.122(e) provides a mechanism for third parties to submit patents, published patent applications, or other printed publications of potential relevance to the ...
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Applying for a patent that is similar to a granted patent
There are two different aspects of dealing with the existing patent. First is infringement. You infringe on a claim if you implement each and every aspect of the claim. Thus if a claim has steps 1 ...
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US 7,356,606 – this patent must be invalid
I realize this is getting a bit old, but ...
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3106.txt -- (C) 2001 -- defines the Electronic Commerce Modeling Language (ECML) which references an XML version in section 2.3;...
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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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Interactive Map - Is Apple trying to patent 40-year-old GIS methods? - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
US Patent 4,428,057 from 1984, "Electronic Chart System"
"An electronic chart system in which charts of the earth are stored in digital representation and communicated to the operator by a visual ...
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Prior art request: RE38782
For a prior art search, you could check out "baby blank" utility or design with a priority date before Dec 2, 1999. Look for ones that are lapsed or have priority date > 20 years old. Interestingly, ...
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Prior Art on the adjuvant function of LMP1, related to the patent application US20130039942
As one of the inventors, I thank the questioner for taking notice of our patent application and thereby implicitly recognizing the importance of the invention. As was known, infection with Epstein-...
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How to make a prior art request for a granted patent or patent application?
You can submit third party observations in respect of an international application, i.e. PCT, until month 28 from the priority date of the application. Filing the observations has no cost, they can be ...
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Prior art for US2020233384A1 which applied reinforcement learning to wind turbines
The USPTO has a third-party issuance document submission process that was created by the AIA law. This was an important reason for Ask Patents to exist in its earlier days. During a defined window ...
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If you are the first to manufacture / produce a product, can you later retroactively file a patent for it?
In the US there is a one year grace period from first publication or sale of an invention. If you file up to the year exactly you might get a patent. There is no retroactive filing. You file when you ...
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Microsoft Modular Computing Device - Prior Art Request
Going way back in time, there's also things like
http://www.storiesofapple.net/the-jonathan-computer.html
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Prior Art for US20150095841 A1 ‘Composable Analytics’ and Data Flow Based programming?
RapidMiner has a graphical programming idiom, access to databases and the ability to deploy models. According to Wikipedia it dates back to 2001. I've used it and it seem to have all of the ...
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Prior Art for US20150095841 A1 ‘Composable Analytics’ and Data Flow Based programming?
Portion of Wikipedia article on Flow-Based Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming#History ) :
Flow-Based Programming (FBP) [referred to in the above-mentioned Sept. 2014 ...
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Mobile Media Server - PRIOR ART REQUEST
It sounds like Microsoft's NetShow meets all these requirements. Here is a link to a press release from 1997 that may describe all the elements.
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Should this patent list prior art associated with it?
I'm not sure if the question is clear. Why would you need prior art to an expired patent? The patent seems to have a priority date in the year 1993. It is really hard to find a website that existed ...
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Should this patent list prior art associated with it?
The fee status is lapsed on that patent but here is some prior art:
US5795630 Prior Art
Also these reference the above patent as prior art:
https://www.google.com/patents/US20050126374
https://www....
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I published biomedical data and afterward, someone else patented the findings
In general-- if there is a patent that was issued in the United States that you believe should have named you as an inventor or co-inventor, there is a path to remedy this situation via 35 USC 135 ...
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Using oxalic acid on cardboard strips against varroa
Indeed the use of oxalic acid for the control of varroa have a long history. We have tried most of the different application methods considering them either dangerous for the beekeeper or too time ...
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US20150310570 seems like a superfluous invention, can someone see prior Art and if suitable innovation exists
I don't have time for a detailed response but ... you can read the details of what is going on with this application at http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair. The application has received a non-...
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Can this be an actual patent?
That's not what it says. The broadest claimed subject matter is that of claim 1:
A method to allow users to produce Internet websites on and for computers having a browser and a virtual machine ...
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Cost to draft and file patent application in the U.S.?
It’s impossible to give an adequate quote and set of options without detail about how the technology works and a better sense of your business plan moving forward. The variety of options is extremely ...
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PRIOR ART REQUEST: US20150262138 “Tip Button” (for Bitcoin)
Before ChangeTip, there was @PikaPay, also a bitcoin tip solution. Was a user since Oct '13. This clearly predates.
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Doesn't the publication of the Pharmaceutical Care Practices in 1998 and 2004 constitute public disclosure?
As I understand it, publication of a book outlining the details of what is claimed in the patent more than a year prior to the patent being applied for constitutes public disclosure of the information ...
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Cloud Storage - Synchronizing output of streaming media data across devices (Accenture) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
Really seems equivalent to this patent dated 2010 :
Synchronized broadcast of streams
(WO 2010079460 A1)
With different playback devices, and synchronization with speed adjustment
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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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