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How can I contact the owner of a patent?
I am looking to contact a person who patented something. I am really interested in the vehicle covering system patent (US8430444) and would like to contact the inventor. Is there any way to get their ...
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How do you determine a patent expiration date?
How can I determine the lifetime of a patent?
For example, how can I tell when Patent US 7,055,282 B2 expires?
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Is this patent application granted, abandonded or pending? Which countries does it cover? Are there family members?
Is the patent link to the patent valid?
Has it been granted?
For which countries does the protection apply?
Are there other patents associated wth it?
How do I know all this?
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How do you correct errors in Google Patents?
In reference to the patent: US163625
The Inventor's name should be "Ariette Baird." How does this happen, and is there any way to correct copy errors in patents?
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Are text and images in the patent copyrighted?
Sometimes, during a patent research, I found patents which comprise one or more similar images and/or text paragraphs. Are text and images in the patent copyrighted? Does any 3rd party, other than ...
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any other patents involving baseball caps for pigtails?
Are there any patents out for baseball caps with pigtail/ponytail openings?
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Is this patent still valid and in force?
http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/12/us-patent-office-declares-steve-jobs.html
This news is from 2012/12 and the action was made on 2012/10, but application status is still "grant". Anyone know the ...
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Filing, CIP, Con, PCT, Priority, etc and Expiration Date
I was wondering if someone would kindly help me figure out how to determine the expiration dates for a patent family, and which and how each is still in effect and until when. (I don't have any patent ...
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Value of an Original Vintage Patent?
My family has some original patent paperwork from 1916. My grandfather is curious as to whether the original paperwork and drawings has any value other than its age. Also curious as to whether the ...
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Jurisdiction of a US patent?
Just read Top 10 (US) Patents for 2014 and spotted one that essentially covers a business process that's only really applicable outside of the US: Bank of America’s the Foreign Currency Solution (U.S. ...
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How long are patents valid?
As an independent software programmer it is very tricky and time consuming to understand these patents. I would say it is impossible for me. Do software patents have a lifetime? If they do, it would ...
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Repatenting someone else's dropped provisionals
My question is, can anybody provide any part of the US patent law proving or disproving the statement that:
Dropped and unpublished provisionals do not impede novelty of other inventions?
And how ...
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When exactly do you lose the provisionals priority?
After reading some previous questions about provisionals, especially from inventors wanting to write them themselfs and consult an attorney only for the non provisional, I was wondering, how much do ...
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How can I perform a global patent search for free?
I'm aware of several resources for searching the national or regional (e.g. EU) patent databases, but have found no tool for searching patents in all (or even several) countries at the same time.
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