We were knocking down prices by hundreds of thousands by finding relevant prior art.
Prior art encompasses all knowledge disclosed to the public before the patent is applied for.
Finding prior art in the traditional, offline way is often very costly, not least in researchers.
However, prior art from any country is valid as a method of striking down a patent.
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Patent examiners typically focus their prior art searches on the database of existing patents.
The site currently features studies seeking prior art on technologies ranging from virtual keyboards to digital payments.
If the jury takes to Samsung's claims of prior art, it could severely cut Apple's claims against it.
As Cheryl points out in her article, the AIA expands the scope of what is available as prior art.
But defensive tasks like prior art searching could become cheaper and more reliable if done on a larger scale.
The new prior art definitions do not take effect until March 16, 2013.
Did it mean prior art could not have been used to compete against anything any other company had done?
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And in example after example, when we put it to the test, the older prior art was just that.
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How much more prior art there is over there than there is here.
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But the way that patents are granted these days is pretty much to ignore prior art and or the obviousness step.
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In U.S. District Court, Vonage s submissions of prior art were dismissed, and the company was ruled to have infringed on the Verizon patents.
These NPEs must uncover evidence of infringement, rule out prior art and inequitable conduct, and interact at length with the patent office.
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That is because, as a result of investigating prior art, firms usually learn an awful lot about competitors working on similar issues.
Hundreds if not thousands more hours must be spent searching for prior art (again, nothing to search for on the plaintiff side).
And if a firm outsources the entire patent-filing activity, it also leaves this identification and interpretation of prior art to the external solicitors.
Ms. Jackson, who isn't told which companies requested the research, declined to comment on the prior art she has found, citing confidentiality agreements.
And as a result of that you have heard a lot of hype in the media about did we turn our back on prior art?
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The legal tussles between Apple and Samsung have previously placed a spotlight on stuff like 2001: A Space Odyssey by way of prior art.
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The new prior art definitions apply only to applications filed on or after that date, and where the application does not claim entitlement to an earlier filing date.
Now Google's patent search is giving prior art some love as well with the addition of the aptly named "Prior Art Finder" to its patent search tool.
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Prior art does not refer to Leonardo, Rembrandt or Renoir.
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My point is that there were substantially difference between the prior art and the new method, but the key was you could not replace one for the other.
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Prior art didn't mean that the prior art wasn't valid.
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Which is very odd indeed as there was several years of prior art, including academic journal articles predicting that this alloy would be good for use in sporting goods.
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Eventually the patent database becomes rich enough with prior art to reach an equilibrium, but the errors in the interim produce a batch of legacy patents that never should have issued.
It's called showing "prior art, " and Sammy's done it before -- famously showing a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey in an attempt to put Apple's iPad design claims to rest.
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