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Location-based marketing - Providing ticketing and access to attractions. (Smart Destinations) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST
AN OVERBROAD PATENT ON Enhanced marketing responsive to customer path data between attractions - This application from Smart Destinations, Inc seeks to patent the idea of...Enhanced data collection ...
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EDA software (IC design)
Looking for prior art on this:
http://www.google.com/patents/US20130290834
Best answered by IC design people who use that kind of software.
Basically looking for what's in the main figure, two ...
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How much of this profiler patent (US Patent No. 8,516,467) distinguishes over prior art?
A lot of this patent feels like it has prior art in existing tools such as disassemblers and profilers.
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A method for detecting a time complexity associated with an ...
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Is there a Patent-to-English dictionary?
On another site, I learned that many words in U.S. patents have very specific meanings, subtly different from their usual meanings in English.
For example, "comprising" is different from "consisting ...
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Prior art for US20140314679
In reference to the patent: US20140314679
Would the following applications qualify as prior art for this?
US20100240990
CA2692570A1
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Does the GS1 MCS industry guideline use US patent 8228198?
In March, 2012, all of the UHF Gen2 RFID chip manufacturers agreed to support Multi-vendor Chip-based Serialization (MCS), a voluntary implementation of a GS1 guideline for encoding 96-bit Serialized ...
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Prior Art Request - US9688399 ("Remotely operated surveillance vehicle management system and method with a fail-safe function")
I'm trying to locate prior art for US9688399 ("Remotely operated surveillance vehicle management system and method with a fail-safe function"). The prior art would have to be dated before ...
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Patent filling in Argentina
Argentina is not part of the PCT and needs filling via national route. Does anyone know what are the basic steps and cost for filling there with a priority document written in English?
I imagine that ...
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Patent Status and Sale history
In reference to the patent: US3915038
This patent belonged to my grandfather, who suffered from mental illness and tragically took his own life in 1973. I have heard numerous stories from my ...
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Is it possible to get a patent for a new Web Browser 'Button'?
Is it possible to get a patent for a new Web Browser 'Button'?
I don't have knowledge about patents and I don't know if this new thing really fits to this thread.
Basically I was thinking for ...
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Prior art for a GC scheduler with an adaptive free-memory threshold?
Patent: US 8,166,269
Assignee: Oracle
Priority Date: 11/5/09
Prior Art: Search Google Prior Art search for 8,166,269
I'm having trouble figuring out whether Oracle is claiming to have invented the ...
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Legal ramifications of including research algorithms in software products sold to clients
If I am a UK-based software vendor or 'software as a service' company, what are the legal implications of including academic research algorithms in products sold to European and international clients? ...
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Citing a blog in background information (not prior art)
For a USPTO utility patent, in my background section I would like provide a reference to an interview (the interview included in a blog post available at archive.org).
This is not a prior art ...
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Unable to get this patent ( number 75086) detail
I am trying to look into the patent mentioned on this Art Deco: Original années 1930 Betel motor car-art deco metal. Ebay has sold many in past bearing the same Patent number.
As can be seen the ...
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Can you file a continuation immediately after filing an application?
If I have a disclosure that lacks unity of invention, I believe that I can file an application, wait for a restriction requirement, elect one set of claims and then file a divisional with the second ...
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