All Questions
171
questions
0
votes
0
answers
5
views
2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
- 101
0
votes
0
answers
12
views
2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
17
views
Shouldn't conflict of interest disclaimers be required ipso facto as opposed to after the fact?
This question is the basis of my question:
Is an electric circuit patentable?
A new user shows up (no history for any pattern), presume, there is no pattern of a particular material having been ...
- 326
0
votes
1
answer
25
views
How do I use this site effectively?
I'm pretty sure I'm using up the goodwill of the moderators with my many questions about patent phrases and wording, so I'm turning to Meta.
Background: I'm working on my first patent, and I plan to ...
- 121
0
votes
1
answer
15
views
Merging [tag:patent-drawings] and [tag:drawing]
patent-drawings and drawing seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
1
vote
1
answer
35
views
How can we attract Quora users from Quora topics related to Patents?
I would love to see this SE burgeon! How can we invite or enthrall Quora users from these Quora topics?
Patents has 282.4K followers.
Patent Law has 262.2K followers.
Software Patents 40.8K.
Patent ...
user27537
0
votes
1
answer
13
views
claim-construction & claims-construction tags should be combined into 1 tag with the other being a synonym/alias
The [claim-constuction] (singular) tag currently has 54 questions whereas the [claims-constuction] (plural) tag currently has 19 questions, not properly subtracting out any questions that have tagged ...
- 371
2
votes
0
answers
17
views
2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
32
views
Is there a SE site to ask patent related questions that is off topic here?
I want to ask about why doesn't patent infringer just remove the infringing features if they are not that important to their products. For example, in the Samsung-Apple smartphone patent war, the ...
- 113
0
votes
0
answers
62
views
Welcome to Ask Patents' newest moderator
We'd like to welcome the newest moderator to Ask Patents:
He'll be joining Eric S shortly — please thank him for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with him as he learns the ropes!
- 101
0
votes
0
answers
38
views
2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
39
views
Am I allowed to advertise my project related to patent system?
Would the following behavior be allowed:
I would like to post a question like "What are alternative solutions to using patents to reward inventors?" and answer it myself with an ...
- 101
3
votes
0
answers
50
views
"Site Stats" box is showing up again
A couple years ago, there was a bug report that the "Site Stats" box on the right had broken links. The issue was fixed by removing the box entirely, since only beta sites are supposed to ...
- 101
2
votes
1
answer
59
views
Spam Questions Increases
Patents is getting a bunch of Spam lately. Is there anyway we can get the moderator to delete them more rapidly? I and others are flagging as spam and downvoting.
- 11.6k
1
vote
1
answer
59
views
Is this answer spam?
This answer from March 28, 2020, which appears to be spam was brought to my attention in the Charcoal chat room when a user commented that their spam flag on that post had aged away. I have also ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
65
views
Invalidity contests such as Patroll from Unified Patents
Is it appropriate to link to third-party invalidity contests on the Ask Patents site? For instance, I propose to link to the active contests on Patroll using the prior-art-request tag and also the ...
- 146
0
votes
0
answers
43
views
2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
37
views
Why is there no newsletter available?
I couldn't find any option to subscribe to the newsletter and even in the dashboard, where all sites are listed, subscribing "ask patents" is not possible.
Why is that?
- 135
2
votes
1
answer
58
views
Only migration option offered is to ask patents meta
A recent question clearly belongs in one of the many stack exchange software sites. When I select close and migrate I get the option to migrate to this meta site - period.
George WhiteMod
- 29.9k
0
votes
1
answer
82
views
"Discuss" link from google patents
A recent question does not mention the patent to which it is referring. Is it possible that google patents has a link to Ask Patents that does not automatically indicate the patent in question? If so, ...
George WhiteMod
- 29.9k
2
votes
0
answers
31
views
2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
- 101
1
vote
2
answers
124
views
Ask Patents updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
- 101
0
votes
2
answers
78
views
Would this site benefit from/is there interest in a Patent Golf?
On Meta.Chemistry.SE there is a post explaining synthesis golf the goal of which is to encourage participation on Chem.SE. I think that AskPatents could benefit from a similar challenge.
My vision ...
- 250
1
vote
1
answer
41
views
Is it all that useful to allow arbitrary new users to create tags?
As a voluntary spam fighter, I flag a lot of spam across the Stack Exchange network every day. Spam posts on other sites carry random irrelevant tags, such as javascript+c#+php+android on Stack ...
- 101
2
votes
1
answer
80
views
Can I publish my invention here on SE as in the public domain?
I am afraid most if not all of my inventions will never be realized. I would rather give away life saving inventions then let them die with me.
Is this a good place to put my invention for the world ...
- 1
1
vote
1
answer
98
views
Would you be in favour of a merger into Law?
I've asked a sister question at Law: Could the scope of law accommodate the full scope of Ask Patents?.
We have a wonderfully committed little community here, with a few regular contributors. But I ...
- 6,218
2
votes
2
answers
73
views
Would migrating Copyright and Trademarks from the general Legal stack make sense?
I know we're not hurting for questions on SE:Patent, but there are still only a small number of contributors (who are to be commended for their dedication and knowledge!)
The idea is it could make ...
- 761
4
votes
1
answer
60
views
Frequent Down Voting
It seems the recently there has been an increase in down voting on answers. While I'm fine with criticism, I think just down voting without providing a comment on the reasoning is unhelpful. How does ...
- 11.6k
1
vote
2
answers
27
views
Default Venue for this website
In general, when discussing a question and it is not stated that the context is the US and unless explicitly stated otherwise: is it assumed the governing law is US patent law and that the question ...
- 711
-1
votes
2
answers
97
views
Is there an active Mod for this Stack?
Looks like the single pro tem mod hasn't been active for over a year, and it seems to me that DonQuiKong, Eric Shain and Maca are doing the actual mod work on this forum.
Possibly it's time to ...
- 761
3
votes
1
answer
121
views
Site Stats - design is broken, link isn't working and should Ask Patents even have them?
The site stats on the front page look like they're broken:
Also, both links (to Area 51 and Stack Exchange) don't work, presumably because of the special status.
Normally, these statistics are only ...
- 183
1
vote
1
answer
52
views
What is the logo on the Prior Art Request tag?
The prior-art-request has a logo, in a similar way to sponsored tags on Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites:
Is this the logo of an organization which deals with patents? Or does it ...
- 183
-3
votes
1
answer
143
views
Decision what's on/off-topic by moderator
Lately we had this question which at this moment has 3 reopen votes and had 4 when I looked a few days ago.
It was unilaterally closed by Robert Cartaino and despite me flagging it twice, it wasn't ...
user18033
0
votes
2
answers
58
views
Wouldn't it make more sense for reputation to be universal to all StackExchange communities?
I was surprised to find that my newly earned reputation points in this community don't seem to carry over to other communities. And I just don't see the point in this. It's kind of like having to go ...
- 413
4
votes
1
answer
92
views
Flagging / Deletion of dangerous wrong advice answers
I have noticed a flag to an answer of mine beeing declined with the reason
flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer
While I certainly understand ...
user18033
0
votes
1
answer
86
views
Google Patents link on main page
I notice there is a "Search patents with Google" link on the right side of the Ask Patents main page. That links to https://www.google.com/?tbm=pts. I've found that https://patents.google.com is ...
- 11.6k
0
votes
1
answer
32
views
Old prior art requests
There are prior art requests here that are not "valid" anymore as the aplication has since become a patent.
Example:
Prior art request for US20120179309 "Data Improvement System and Method"?...
user18033
2
votes
1
answer
45
views
Duplicate tags [infringement] and [patent-infringement]
I don't think there is a relevant difference that can be conveyed to everyone (or enough ppl) using these tags, I'd say they are duplicates.
user18033
2
votes
1
answer
42
views
How many votes should one use?
I am personally voting on many questions and answers as I think giving away some repuation is important on a page like this with so few active users (of course, only if I think the question/answer has ...
user18033
4
votes
2
answers
117
views
What to do to get this site more attention?
There are 12 users that have received more than 10 reputation in the last month and 22 with more than 100 in the last year, number one beeing somebody who hasn't been here in that year. I don't think ...
user18033
1
vote
0
answers
15
views
Duplicate tags on invalidity
The tags "invalid" "invalidation" "invalidate" and "patent-invalidation" shoud probably be synonyms.
user18033
0
votes
0
answers
22
views
Can we make a "tips and tricks for patent applications" question?
I feel like this would help many people, but it isn't exactly a question answer thing, more like a wiki thing. Any thoughts?
user18033
0
votes
1
answer
36
views
A user guide about how to use this page
I am new and I was wondering if there is any guide around about how to use this page (ask patents);
Bounties, accounts, tags, badges, reputation, etc, etc.., any guide?
I am sorry if I sound like ...
- 11
0
votes
1
answer
50
views
Legal Questions
Is there a place where I can ask questions concerning patent law for free? I know that this is an excellent resource for questions related to patents in general, but I have a legal question regarding ...
- 29
2
votes
1
answer
40
views
Does Ask Patents take coverage questions?
I'm mainly active over on Cryptography.SE and as such I'm always worried about patents and alike, especially given the history of patents and cryptography which blocked certain (very useful) ...
- 101
2
votes
0
answers
76
views
Area 51 link on Main 404's
I recently learned about Ask Patents through a meta.SE post which discussed the SE sites which did not go through Area 51. That being said, there is still a link to the Ask Patents Area 51 proposal ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
56
views
"Prior Art" and "Public Domain" synonyms?
Should the "Prior Art" and "Public Domain" tags be made synonyms of each other? Or is it separate enough and distinct that they should remain separate tags?
4
votes
2
answers
77
views
Has Ask Patents impacted frivolous patent claims?
I just read about the site's mission against frivolous software patent claims. I'm really intrigued by the idea and I wanted to know how much of an impact it has had since its inception. I wasn't able ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
48
views
Duplicate tags [european] [eu]
"european" (currently 7 questions) and "eu" (currently 10 questions) are duplicate tags. "European" should be made a synonym of "eu".
- 596
0
votes
1
answer
107
views
Clarification for "continuation" tag
"Continuation" could mean either a family of patent including continuation, divisional, and ᴄɪᴘ, or just "continuation". We need clarification on how questions related to "continuation" should be ...
- 596