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Is it a good idea to publish the white paper describing the technology right after filing patent application?

I will publish patent application and I want to share my invention with others right after that. I want to see if there will be any interest from investors. Are there any dangers associated with such a disclosure (as the priority date is granted…
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Information Disclosure Statement

When filing a USPTO utility patent, one files a Form sb008a and sb008b: a list of other patents and non patent literature. THOUGHTS I understand one can not patent something that has been patented or published. Although one could theoretically…
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Appropriate Level of detail to describe patents process and invention

BACKGROUND An American novel invention features a new industrial measurement process and is implemented by configuring COTS (commercial off the shelf) computers and COTS software to measure and calculate a utilitarian result. Hardware is not modded…
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