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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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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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Ask Patents needs a cleanup
Ask Patents has attracted a ton of low quality questions. Stuff like https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/9976/i-am-install-softwayers-games-or-many-think. There's also a good number of ...
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Should we appoint pro-tem moderators?
I'll admit that I'm not an overly frequent user of Ask Patents, but as someone who does pop on from time to time, I see quite a few straight-up bad questions.
As I understand it, AP is currently ...
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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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Can patents be searchable by number?
Is there a syntax to be used when searching for patents on AskPatents? For example this answer to the popular Apple V Samsung question, contains multiple references to the cases associated patents. ...
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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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Would you be interested in Moderating this site?
Greeting all! It's time to see if we can get some Moderators for this site!
Most Stack Exchange sites (like Ask Patents) are generally self-moderated by the community. The combination of voting, wiki-...
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Did the rep level for edit and close-votes just get changed?
Did the rep level for edit and close-votes just get changed? Last month I was able to participate in close-voting and edits, but not I have lost those privileges.
I don't see any meta question ...
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Why do we have so many posts that do not mention the patent number in question? And why so many are off-topic?
Why are there so many posts that do not mention the number but seem to think we know what they are referring to ? Also why do we get so many strangely off-topic questions and can that be mitigated?
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Now -- how is this experiment turning out?
A more pointed version of my previous question. Besides a general slow-down, we are starting to get more questions regarding the poster personally getting a patent than questions about stoping bad ...
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Should the on-topic page reflect questions about tools used with patents?
Speaking in response to this question, How often is Google Patents updated?, and specifically Robert's comment on it, I'd like to see the help center updated to include that questions about specific ...
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What Type of Questions is This Site For?
I'm relatively new here, so I'm still trying to get the hang of what sorts of questions are really appropriate here. I'm used to Stack Overflow, where questions are a little more generally applicable. ...
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Should we find a way to avoid patent numbers as tags?
I see a number of questions where the author have used the patent number as a tag.
It gets slightly more interesting when a high rep user changes a question from having a link to having a tag (and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How to properly tag a reissue patent?
I just encountered a question regarding a reissue patent, and I haven't found the correct tag syntax to get the patent sidebar to show. I've tried usre45370 and usre45370e1. Google's "Discuss This ...
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Where is Ask Patents marketed?
I see a lot of users asking questions on here like this one, where users ask something that more or less like this. I don't mean to call this user or post out in particular, this is just one of many ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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