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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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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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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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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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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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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECLINING A VEHICLE SEAT - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
Here is a thread from JK-Forum started June 18th, 2008 with over 130 messages prior to the priority date discussing how to make these and install.
http://www.jk-forum.com/forums/jk-write-ups-39/...
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECLINING A VEHICLE SEAT - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
Here is a discussion from 12-22-2009 explaining exactly how to make these spacers with multiple responses from others amending the design with additional ideas.
http://www.jkowners.com/forum/...
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECLINING A VEHICLE SEAT - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
"Common" person discussion 8 years ago on how to do this yourself. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080227061412AAhTBPU
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECLINING A VEHICLE SEAT - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
Here is prior art from 2006 -
This is from someone that implemented the spacers and referenced the manufacturer.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060317205722/http://www.stu-offroad.com/body/riser/...
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECLINING A VEHICLE SEAT - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
Here's another prior art piece referencing off the shelf spacers being used - https://web.archive.org/web/20120823091347/http://www.savagesun4x4.com/enter/fabwerks_-_projects/general-jeep-4x4-projects/...
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECLINING A VEHICLE SEAT - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
Looking at the Public Pair Image File Wrapper US 2005/0035248 A1, Bolt-on adjustable seat mounting bracket kit, you'll find some interesting reading, including some Prior Art cited by the examiner (...
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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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