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The delay was attributed by spokesmen for the Patent Office to a combination of a sudden increase in business method patent filings after the 1998 State Street Bank decision, the unfamiliarity of patent examiners with the business and financial arts (e.g., banking, insurance, stock trading etc.), and the issuance of a number of controversial ...
This patent was issued in 1892. It discloses a means for selling travelers' insurance by combining coupons with a newspaper. A more recent example of an insurance patent is EP application 0700009 , granted as EP 0700009B "Individual evaluation system for motorcar risk". This patent issued by the European Patent Office in 1996 to Salvador Minguijon
In a patent or patent application, the claims define in technical terms the extent, i.e. the scope, of the protection conferred by a patent, or the protection sought in a patent application. In other words, the purpose of the claims is to define which subject-matter is protected by the patent (or sought to be protected by the patent application).
This right to obtain provisional damages requires a patent holder to show that (1) the infringing activities occurred after the publication of the patent application, (2) the patented claims are substantially identical to the claims in the published application, and (3) the infringer had "actual notice" of the published patent application.
Wikipedia entry for Google Patents.Google Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Among other things, U.S. Patent No. 8,311,858 covers a wireless device that monitors vehicle data used to determine a level of risk, or a cost of insurance. The patent also addresses an in-vehicle ...
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 ...
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