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Letter received re abandonment of patent
You should call a patent lawyer on this. The rules for reinstating applications should be readily familiar to a patent attorney.
I pulled up the application at http://portal.uspto.gov and it looks ...
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How do we reinstate our patent US 5,341,526
Patents are territorial rights and for limited period of time(i.e. 20 years). subject query patent was filed in 1992 granted in 1994 and expired way back. Since your Mother assigned you patent in 1999 ...
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Is there any way to track Patents which are reinstated after non-payment of maintenance fees?
If patent is lapsed due to non-payment of Maintenance fee one can revive it filing a Petition See Earlier answer Failure to pay maintenance fees
Now Such Petition is Hard to track As I see no option ...
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Failure to pay maintenance fees
No, the idea is not patentable anymore. Once any person anywhere publishes knowledge on how to create the invention (whether publishes it in a patent, online, in a novel, etc...), the idea can no ...
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Can the patent be revived EP 0639878 B1
Also how long are patent granted for 15 years or 20 years and is this from the date o publication or from the date of Granting of the patent.
Quoting the EPO's website:
"The maximum term of a ...
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