Unanswered Questions
20 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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'Technical effects' of software patents for eligibility
For patent eligibility of software patents in many countries including EU there is a requirement of 'technical effects' on the hardware device. These 'technical effects' are technological advances or ...
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Sending a CD with Codebase
This seems to be the rules on mailing a codebase for a software application on CD, it seems it needs to be on ASCII format. The reason to mail a cd of codebase is to show that you know how to build ...
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beelinereader patent coverage
I am a fan of beelinereader, I want to use same idea to implement a reader app,in their website it is written that their technology is patented as here https://patents.google.com/patent/...
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What are the implications of patents on deep learning techniques?
What are the implications of patents on deep learning techniques? What are the limitations when using such techniques? For example, dropout or transformers are patented by Google (https://patents....
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A feature in Software Product
Can a feature available in a software product patented? For eg, there are various Core Banking Systems and will they be patenting these features?
Then how are other products able to give the features?...
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Software claims and infringement
In a software patent, typically three kinds of claims expressing almost the same idea are listed, namely system claim, method claim, and media claim.
In my interpretation, the system claim and ...
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What is the current status of US6493686?
It says lapsed for US6493686, but I do not understand why. Is this information up to date?
How can I determine the reason for this patent having lapsed, for example if it was abandoned for non-...
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Patent WO 2014122535 A2 (US 14/172,685): User Interface, prior art exists
I studied this patent (pending) and it seems obvious to me that prior art apply on:
System for organizing and displaying information on a display device
WO2014122535A2
US20140223313
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A patent application with a similar idea to an existing product
We are a software company based in Europe making spreadsheet software including add-ins.
In 2019, we added a feature in one of our Excel add-ins published in Microsoft Office add-in store, which has ...
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Have Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1) patents expired?
the Windows Media Video 7 video coding format is also known as WMV1.
WMV 7 "publicly exists" since 1999 [1]
in most jurisdictions, patents seems to be valid 20 years
software patent where they are ...
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Example of a good patent in Software Development
Wondering what an example of a "good" patent is in Software Development. Basically wondering:
How long the good ones typically are (a range of sizes).
How much scope one patent contains, or if they ...
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Has anyone patented a way to implement fast tunable optical filters with 1 to 2 nm bandwidth FWHM that are insensitive to angle of incidence?
In reference to the patent: US6901178, Fast Tunable Optical Filter
I am interested in whether the combination of a spectrometer and a tunable notch filter based on U.S Patent 6901178 with notch ...
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What aspects of Microsoft's UProve technology is patented by others?
Microsoft published their UProve technology to an open source license; however they mention that they can't guarantee that the technology does not infringe on other patents not covered by Microsoft.
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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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Did the examiner force the inventor to narrow the scope of the central concept of this patent?
original patent:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US11386172B1/en?oq=11%2c386%2c172
https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/applications/15916086/ifw/docs?application=
continued patent:
https://patents.google....
