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my provisional utility application expired 4 days after the filing date
On the USPTO patent center:
Filing or 371 (c) date
x/y/2024
However
Status
Provisional Application Expired x/y+4/2025
Why did my filing get a 4 day extension?
Can this be counted on for all ...
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Can an abandoned patent be reapplied for by the original inventor?
I was working on a patent in 2018 and abandoned because of a mechanical oversight. Today, having solved the problem Can I reaply?
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Calculation of Grace Period for USPTO
Could you please clarify whether the one-year grace period in the U.S. is calculated from the foreign priority date or from the actual U.S. filing date? For example:
Event Date
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Remove one of three persons on patent with me
I am on a patent with two other people. One of them was removed from our company for bad business practices. We sued him and are moving on. He will not give us company documents, etc. The biggest ...
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I would like any office actions by the examiner, and then I would like the replies that overcome the office actions
I would like any office actions by the examiner, and then I would like the replies that overcome the office actions. Please note the office action I am referring to related to not obvious patent ...
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Can we patent a Turing machine instruction table?
"35 usc 101
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, ...
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Where can I find a patent with the number ZL 02 2 83133.9 and ZL 2006 20005099.5 ? Thank you
Where can I find a patent with the number ZL 02 2 83133.9 and ZL 2006 20005099.5 ? Thank you
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How many inventors are sole inventor of multiple patents?
I'm sole inventor of eight patents and was wondering how many inventors have a similar count. At my employer, most patents have three or more inventors. I'm an outlier. Is this true overall?
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Technology patents which involve mathematics
Suppose you have a new mathematical discovery and want to patent a hw implementation of the idea:
Should the mathematical idea or algorithm be revealed in the patent?
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Advice on Final Action
I got my final action, and the SPE is a super tough guy with only 10% grant rate in three years. what I am shocking is their common sense or logic, I know I could win PTAB but it means nothing but ...
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Overlapping of granted claims
I came across this granted patent, US12171876B2 ('876), that claimed a specific compound YK-009, of which the generic structure has already been covered in broad terms by other granted patents, such ...
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Unexpected Warnings in a Utility Nonprovisional
I'm ready to file my first Nonprovisional Utility Patent.
I've received the following warnings:
⚠ Warnings (4)
• [Code: 4018] All artifacts (SmartArt, Drawings, Charts, etc) have been replaced with ...
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How much more work and time is needed to convert a provisional to a PCT?
The provisional software method patent that I've file is about 50 pages long, and it should be enough to simply convert to the non-provisional.
How long will it take to convert this provisional to a ...
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How long do to file a PCT application from a provisional application submitted to the USPTO?
I know that you have one year to file your non-provisional that claims the benefit of the provisional's priority date.
The question is, what about the PCT? How long do you have to file the PCT, that ...
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US 6067803 A is this patent still valid in Italy?
Cooling pouch US 6067803 A Is this patent is still valid? The official website of Frio says it has patented technology but in patent it has given that claims are cancelled.
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