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Are patent examiners and other industry officials visually distingushable from "normal" users?
This site is unusual in the sense that a small subset of people (i.e. the patent examiners and similar industry officials) will be playing a very distinct role on this site, different from the average ...
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Is there a plan to enable preissuance submissions of prior art directly through this site?
Because preissuance submissions can be submitted for free if it's your first and only submission for a particular application and you're not submitting more than 3 documents, is there any plan to ...
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What is the rationale for having the patent number as a tag?
This seems to clutter the system, and i didn't see a given rationale in the FAQ.
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Are patent numbers needed in titles?
I recently removed the number from Prior art for video games played according to a selected value system such as the claimed "codes of honor", but the OP replaced it. Should we have the ...
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Will obviousness be in play at all?
I understand the primary goal for AskPatents is to crowdsource the discovery of prior art. I think it's brilliant.
However, there will still be a lot of patents that will not be invalidated by ...
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Are we limited to US patents? [duplicate]
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Is this site only and specifically for the USA patent system?
Are the questions here limited to the US patent system? Can I ask questions about the UK patent system? Can I ask ...
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Should we include the prepended year in the [us2012abcdefg] tag structure?
Some tags currently have it, and some do not:
Let's standardize this. Additionally, we should decide whether or not to include the "A1" (which means that this is a patent's first filing) at the end ...
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How Do I Write a Prior Art Request for a U.S. Patent Application?
It's a bit difficult to capture the essence of what a patent is about in the space of a title. Unfortunately, patent numbers and legal jargon doesn't really tell anyone about the inherent issues ...
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Patent classification tags and tag wikis
Do tag the question with more general categories that others might subscribe to. For this example, tags like wireless-networks or information-security (the USPTO's classification) might be useful.
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Should the design of this site incorporate some ideas from skeptics.stackexchange.com?
Please have a look at Stack Exchange's site for skeptics , which is:
A site for challenging unreferenced notable claims, pseudoscience and biased results
Patents SE (our site) serves a similar ...
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Should country tags use abbreviations or full names?
A handful of tags have emerged to identify the country to which the question pertains. We've got uk, usa, and united-states.
Should we be using abbreviations (UK, USA) or full names (United-States, ...
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Are questions of the form 'Can anyone find prior art for patent X' on topic?
Are questions that attempt to crowd-source the prior art gathering process going to be on topic/allowed?
I'm thinking about questions along the lines of:
I'm being sued by company X regarding ...
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Can I withdraw an answer when a better one is posted?
I answered a question in the main section by describing some of the considerations in evaluating copyright issues generally. A later answer directly addressed the actual question, rendering my more ...
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How can I find the best patent applications to challenge (by requesting prior art)?
What is the best way to find/search/browse questionable patent applications so that I can then search for prior art to be submitted to the USPTO.
I'm familiar with Google Patent Search but it's very ...
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Why can't I see Patents SE in the Stack Exchange homepage?
Why is Ask Patents not present in the above grid?
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Is this site only and specifically for the USA patent system?
In our new site's "About" page we have this:
Ask Patents is a collaboratively edited Q&A site for patent experts and inventors to:
Solicit help finding prior art that might apply to a ...
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How to challenge a patent application
How do I challenge a patent application? In other words, I'm supposed to be able to use this site to challenge the community to find prior art. So, for example, here's a patent application that looks ...
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Are questions about software licensing on topic?
I'm sure many of you got invited to this private beta because you had previously supported the Software Licensing SE on Area51, so I feel like this will be a useful question.
Software patents and ...
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