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Patent examiners rarely have a comprehensive knowledge of the specific technologies disclosed in the patent applications they examine. This is in large part due to the enormous number of micro-niches in the software field and the very limited number of hours (often less than 8 h per patent) available to examiners to review patent applications.
A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification [notes 1] and a set of one or more claims stated in a formal document, including necessary official forms and related correspondence. It is the combination of the document and its processing within the ...
The large size of the US economy, the strong pro-patentee legal regime and over 200 years of case law make US patents more valuable and more litigated than patents of any other country. The long history of patents and strong protection of patent holders contributes to abuse of the system by patent trolls, which are largely absent in other ...
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Roblox is opening up its video ads offering to all advertisers following trial testing over the past six months with brands, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Walmart, e.l.f Beauty, HUGO and global ...
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. [1]
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The purpose of the inventive step, or non-obviousness, requirement is to avoid granting patents for inventions which only follow from "normal product design and development", to achieve a proper balance between the incentive provided by the patent system, namely encouraging innovation, and its social cost, namely conferring temporary monopolies. [4]