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What does the phrase "described in a printed publication" mean in 35 U.S. Code § 102, in a digital world

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What are the implications if a provisional patent expires before a matching utility patent is filed?

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What is the earliest filing date and the expiry date of US 8221340 B2?

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Is it true that cheaper-than-court IPR is now practically impossible against patent troll?

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How to decide whether a US-patent is still in force?

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USPTO Patent Center - Status

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Free alternatives to IP.com or research disclosure s?

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Do I infringe if scope of the claims are narrow, but a broader example covers the product?

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What is the status of patent US 20110100268

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Ways to exclude non-effective patent documents during freedom to operate searches

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Do I have to disclose patent consultant's info?

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I believe the Expiration date is inaccurate

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a number of and the number of in claim

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Design Patent Drawing

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How to feel about the absurdly high invalidation rate in the US?

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Is there a place to see if a patent is used somehow?

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Given application, grant, and publication numbers, containing duplicates of the same patent, how do I figure out the total number of unique patents?

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is independent claim 2 acceptable

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Using the Patent Center, is it possible to know whether an application applied the Fast Track?

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complexity of Tinder's swipe matching process patent

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claim mapping of standard essential patent

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Supplemental Protection Certificates, two different drug indications (Europe)

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Prior Art on 2022/0168762

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How far do I have to go back in time to only be looking at free state of the art patent documents?

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If a company has been selling your patented invention on the market

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Can a "fee related" expired patent be renewed?

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How can US20200206098A1 be patent-worthy when FR3037791B1 discusses the same things?

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How use PTAB API

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It is ok to have "a turbine blades" in a claim as plural?

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USPTO Customer Number

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Utilizing existing already manufactured products

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PRIOR ART REQUEST: US7,051,342 - Method and system for remote automation of object oriented applications

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Can you file a continuation immediately after filing an application?

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Are patent term adjustment granted automatically?

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Prior Art search

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EDA software (IC design)

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Is a 1954 patent still worth anything?

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Is there a way to determine if hackathon ideas are ultimately patented?

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Patent Term Adjustment

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How could patents last longer than the term prescribed by law?

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