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Requesting prior art on Google machine learning patent (US 2014/0180986)
Google is not the company that filed the application. If you examine the Legal Events, the application for this patent was originally filed by a Canadian startup company affiliated with the University ...
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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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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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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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Prior art for e-ticketing with a barcode image via the web
US6223166 (Priority: Nov 26, 1997 published : 24 Apr 2001)- Cryptographic encoded ticket issuing and collection system for remote purchasers.
Try to check https://www.google.com/patents/US20020169623,...
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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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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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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECLINING A VEHICLE SEAT - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
Here is prior art from 11-13-2010 user J_Westy shows how a common person cut the material, drilled the holes to utilize the same method and system for tilting their seat back. http://www....
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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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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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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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Can this patent be invalidated?
Since theirs is a design patent, not a utility patent, I'd focus on making a distinctive visual appearance for my bottle design, and then do another design patent on that. Don't confuse design and ...
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There are several wrist tools, magnetic wrist tools, how will this get approved?
I see 19 cited patents, will this get approved?
Hopefully the main independent claim will not make it through unamended (see my analysis below).
[Does] simply stating you can mix makeup on a flat ...
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Prior art seems to exist
If you look at the priority date of the patent it is 30 January 2007. The conference paper was made available to the public in April 2007. By definition of prior art in the patent law, a document can ...
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Design Patent US D697,706 - human hand umbrella handle
In this case, the design of the handle is from a cast of a model named Bridget. That is extremely specific.
From Giving a Hand to the Umbrella Business? (February 24, 2012)
Each Bridget has a ...
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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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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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Prior art request for US20120179309 "Data Improvement System and Method"?
The patent application was initially rejected twice, and then on 10/1/2014, the attorneys added this language to claim 1:
wherein the initial track centerline data defines a centerline of the track,...
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PRIOR ART REQUEST: US20150066784 "Automated Clickwrap and Browsewrap System"
I found this, it's called End User License Agreement Detection and Monitoring, this is what the abstract says:
"An approach is provided for detecting and monitoring end user license
agreement (...
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What are the prior arts related to the patent in question?
There is a very similar German patent which has been filed on 2 May 1991 and granted on 29 April 1993: DE 41 14 268 C2.
Another German patent was filed on 6 July 1994 and granted on 1 September 1995: ...
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What are the prior arts related to the patent in question?
I think below articles are good prior-arts
Pyrrolidides: synthesis and structure-activity relationship as inhibitors of dipeptidyl peptidase IV
2-cyanopyrrolidides as potent, stable inhibitors of ...
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What is the invention, since there is strong evidence of prior art
This is only an application and may never be granted. Claim 1 is especially unlikely given prior art. In this case, Wikipedia provides some prior art and a couple of useful links. including Onvio and ...
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prior art for US patent 7438306 motorcycle patent with overly broad claims
My tools that I use are restricted to the USPTO at this time, all results found are from there.
https://www.google.com/patents/US7111861
The above invention uses a pneumatic piston (as opposed to a ...
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A dangerous patent application may derail a simple technology to compost food waste. Please help
Here is a cyclical method of performing (what I think is) the method from 1985:
https://www.google.com/patents/US4491522
He himself cites several patents that appear to be the method, he is ...
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