For questions involving the creation, use, sale, import or export of patented items without permission from the patent holder or any person legally entitled to grant a license. Also for questions regarding the legal implications for the patent holder or the infringer. If you are beeing sued or put on notice for patent infringement please note that this can cost A LOT of money, you should consult a patent attorney.
Questions tagged [patent-infringement]
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How to determine Canadian patent life-time?
Is patent CA 2561773 A1 still valid or pending?
Event shows: dead in 2008
Please inform of risk of patent infringement.
omar m elmi
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Do patents offer protection from private use?
Say I patent an innovative method or device for creating ice-cream. I am in the ice-cream business itself, not device manufacturing.
Suddenly, some competitor appears claiming to use a trade secret method for creating ice-cream, stealing my…
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Does the GS1 MCS industry guideline use US patent 8228198?
In March, 2012, all of the UHF Gen2 RFID chip manufacturers agreed to support Multi-vendor Chip-based Serialization (MCS), a voluntary implementation of a GS1 guideline for encoding 96-bit Serialized Global Trade Identification Numbers (SGTIN-96)…
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Are there existing patents on electronic (web) Q&A forums?
We want to add Q&A to our product pages, but don't want to get hit with an infringment. Are their any patents that claim to have invented the electronic Q&A forum for posting questions and answers to a web page?
Craig Costanzo
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Would it be infringement if I re-use a PART of a patented product in my own design?
If I purchase an existent patented commercial product, extract one specific part out of it, and re-use that one part in my own design (as part of a device that I manufacture and then sell), is this legal or would it constitute an IP violation /…
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I could be sue for patent infringement just to have my website with a system or platform of a third company?
If I have my website created with a third party company and they are infringing any patent, could I be sue, just to be a user of that software or program?
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If we have constructed a game and later found out it is patented, what do we do?
We were recently introduced to the game Nine Square in the Air by some friends. We decided to try it out at our non-profit camp, so we built our own version. Later on, someone brought it to our attention that the game design may be patented. What do…
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Is it possible to bypass design patent?
Recently I started small business of bracelet making and now I got told, that there's another company, that is making almost the same product and they have design patent for it
And I'm making almost the same bracelet by myself, but it have one…
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Do patent holders have to be "reachable?"
Do owners have to maintain an availability or can they just lodge a patent and vanish leaving an idea protected which nobody else can touch. If not how do we locate owners to find out more details or be sure not to infringe.
tony
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Divided patent infringement
My software implemented process invention includes three entities:
The first business entity providing the data
A second business entity requesting the data
A user, whose data is requested
I can actually narrow this down such that the user isn't…
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If I buy property where patented fruit is already growing, can I sell the fruit?
I am looking at purchasing a house, that has a grove of trees that are patented, growing on the property. Am I able to sell the fruit since I will own the property on which it is growing? Also, it looks like the patent was official in 2002. Does…
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Manufacturing a patented product
Good evening,
I own a patented product and have found a company that has the ability to manufacture it in-house. Is there certain paperwork that needs to be in place since the product is patented or can I just go to them whenever I want them to make…
David
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Patent infringement on a very simple invention?
Our competition has patented a very simple device. Its prior art was a coffee spoon with a hook on the end, to hang it over the edge of a cup.
The invention modified the spoon a bit (shape is bent, bottom part is made rectangular, measuring scale…
Dmitriy
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What does Golang patent mean
What does the patent grant for Golang mean? Can I use Golan for whatever I want (like the BSD license implies) or does it limit my use of Golang in any way?
Here is the text of the patent:
https://golang.org/PATENTS?m=text
user45645
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How long can you still sell a product that was recently granted ornamental design patent?
If the company has been selling a product for some time, and it was not patented. But then the original inventor decided to patent the product. You still have it in stock. How long have you got to sell this product without a patent?
Karla
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