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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?

I want to do a free state of the art patent search and I wan to know, how far do I have to go back in time to be 100% sure all shown patent documents are free state of the art? Up until now I was ...
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USPTO Customer Number

I submitted a customer number request form per this page. How long does it generally take for the USPTO to fulfill the request and email a customer number? And after a customer number has been ...
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If a company has been selling your patented invention on the market

If the patent has been granted, what are your next steps. Assuming that you are successful in those next steps, what will you be able to get from the company? Will you be able to get 100% of profits ...
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Does 35 u.s.c. 121 (safe harbor) still stand if examiner withdraws restriction requirement before issuing the patent?

Saw this post on intelproplaw.com and was curious if anyone on here had any additional insight. Hypo: applicant prosecutes a claim set to allowance following a restriction requirement. Non-elected ...
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Supplemental Protection Certificates, two different drug indications (Europe)

I've been trying to understand the scope of protection for SPC's. Let's say a drug company gets an MA in Europe for compound X for two different therapeutic uses, use A and use B. Let's say the ...
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How use PTAB API

Does anyone have step by step instructions on how to use the PTAB API? Patentsview is easy since you can just download decisions (or the document that each line devoted to each case) into csv or dta ...
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What are the implications if a provisional patent expires before a matching utility patent is filed?

Imagine an inventor files a provisional USA patent, but is tardy on the deadline for filing a utility patent. Other than the loss of priority date, what rights are lost, and what risks are created for ...
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What does the phrase "described in a printed publication" mean in 35 U.S. Code § 102, in a digital world

What does the phrase "described in a printed publication" from 35 U.S. Code § 102 mean, in a world where many publications are no longer technically "printed". How should this be ...
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How to feel about the absurdly high invalidation rate in the US?

Hello I am an inventor with two granted US patents. My first was infringed but it was unenforceable because the infringer was not established enough of a company to make a good target for litigation ...
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What is the earliest filing date and the expiry date of US 8221340 B2?

What is the earliest filing date and the expiry date of US 8221340 B2? Thank you in advance.
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Prior Art search

What are the best way to search closest prior art and how to identify closest prior arts from prosecution file history for pharmaceutical patents.
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EDA software (IC design)

Looking for prior art on this: http://www.google.com/patents/US20130290834 Best answered by IC design people who use that kind of software. Basically looking for what's in the main figure, two ...
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Is it true that cheaper-than-court IPR is now practically impossible against patent troll?

From https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/new-uspto-memo-makes-fighting-patent-trolls-even-harder ... That 2022 guidance essentially saved the IPR system. Once PTAB judges were told to consider all ...
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Is there a place to see if a patent is used somehow?

I have a particular patent that I am interested in finding out if it has been used in somewhere to block an infringer, etc. Is there a place for this kind of info?
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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?

How can I input a list of application numbers, grant numbers, and publication numbers, some of which may be duplicates of the same patent, and determine which ones correspond to the unique patent so I ...
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