Questions tagged [support]
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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Could someone add a hyphen to the legalstatus tag?
I was planning on creating legal-status as a new tag, then moving the four legalstatus questions over to it and letting the original expire. But, the system considers the two to be the same and will ...
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How many question should I split this into?
I've long since quite liked trading card games (and Magic: The Gathering in particular) and I have the dream to one day make my own. However, Wizards of the Coast, the creators of Magic (the first ...
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Are users emailed when their question gets answered?
When a user on Ask Patents posts a question and another responds, is the user who posted the question notified via email that an answer was posted?
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who handles twitter profile of the Ask Patents?
Does moderator maintains twitter profile of ask patents?
https://twitter.com/AskPatents
It was not updated from last September. I am very interested to maintain the same, if possible.
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What is the ideal way to respond 'Community user' pokes?
I see most of pokes of community user what is the best way:-
Answer them a fresh??
Vote up the correct answer?
edit and vote up the answer?
improve the question quality and voteup question?
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Ways to sort tags wherein no wiki
Currently I am venturing to make our Tags informative.
Although i can browse and see tags I wonder is there any ways i can sort tags having no wiki? just like unanswered questions.
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Answering old unanswered questions?
I see about 200 questions remained unanswered in our Ask Patents is it correct if I clear the backlog?
How can I be sure if answers are correct?
Is it ok if other users will try to review if old ...
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Why can I not comment on Question 47?
I wanted to add my comments to
How Do I Write a Prior Art Request for a U.S. Patent Application?
but the "add comment" link does not appear on either on the question nor on the first anwser.
Why ...
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Break down by claim or patent?
I'm trying to apply Dan Shapiro's How to read a patent in 60 seconds to some Nokia "WebM" patents but it doesn't quite match the normal Q/A format.
I would like to break the patent into individual ...
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Make some posts disappear?
We are starting to get quite a few posts that are not spam but are so far off they are cluttering up the site and possibly being hit in searches and attracting more similar posts. Is there a way to ...
George WhiteMod
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How do I suggest a fix to an error in the FAQs?
My specific note is that an FAQ answer talks about US and EU patents and using a tag like [EU12345]. There are EPO patents, not EU patents. The numbers start with EP not EU.
George WhiteMod
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Starting numbered lists at 8 (or any number) instead of 1
The way the formatting works, even if I put in a comment like this:
"8. The system of claim 1..."
it appears like this:
The system of claim 1...
It would appear that numbered lists ...
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Can you question an already issued patent
First off, great and inspiring site!
I've read a lot of topics on submitting prior art for patent applications. Does the same rules apply for already issued patents? I could just save the prior art ...
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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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Best practices for linking references to patent numbers?
I've noticed that in posts here we're going to very often reference patents by their code / number, whatever you prefer to call it. It seems like a good idea to link these whenever possible to a site ...
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Error found in question view calculation
I think the total number of views to question is being calculated wrong...
this question for example
Here no of views is still 1, but it already have more than 8 up votes.
That means there is error in ...
