Thursday, September 16, 2010

How To Read a Patent in 60 Seconds

Someone’s claiming you’re infringing their patent! You need to figure out how bad the situation is.

Or… your boss has asked you to take a look at an old patent you wrote, and see if someone else is infringing it. And you have no recollection whatsoever, because it takes an average of nearly four years for a patent to be examined, so by the time anything interesting happens you’ve forgotten all about it.

Or… you’re just reading one of eighty hojillion Slashdot stories that use the title of the patent to write a “guess what obvious thing got patented” story, but you’re smart enough to know that the title isn’t actually the invention, and are curious what the real dirt’s about. [...]



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