Ask Patents Weekly Newsletter - Friday, June 27, 2014

Greatest hits from previous weeks: Should I patent my idea before posting it on the internet? Should I patent my idea before posting it on public internet forums? Could someone who sees my post beat me to it? [patentability]   asked by Just Curious 20 votes answered by bta 16 votes Online Search - User Curated Search Result Pages (Yahoo!) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST This Patent Application received a non-final rejection by the US Patent Office! An initial rejection is part of the typical course of a patent application. The rejection was based in part on prior … [prior-art-request] [pre-grant] [rejected] [yahoo] [us20130159222]   asked by Micah Siegel 5 votes answered by Paul Guyot 5 votes Pitch Detection - Power Spectral Estimator to Tune Musical Instruments (Overtone Labs, Inc) - Issued Patent - PRIOR ART REQUEST AN OVERBROAD PATENT ON pitch detection - This issued patent from Overtone Labs seeks to patent the idea of...pitch detection for resonance tuning of a musical instrument. 10 minutes of your time can … [prior-art-request] [post-grant] [us8502060]   asked by Aron Stein 7 votes answered by Robert Tesla III 7 votes Can someone patent someone else's invention? In the history, invention conflicts were on who has patented an invention sooner. This is the subject of stealing an invention. Consider one has published an invention in any kind of media, can this … [patentability] [law] [patent-infringement] [usa] [defensive-publications]   asked by All 4 votes answered by m3lvn 6 votes Online Dating - Identifying Nearby, Compatible Users (Zoosk) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST AN OVERBROAD PATENT FOR ONLINE DATING - This application from Zoosk seeks to patent the idea of finding other people who are nearby and compatible with you online! 10 minutes of your time can help … [prior-art-request] [pre-grant] [us20130145288] [online-dating] [zoosk]   asked by Micah Siegel 4 votes answered by esilver 3 votes Synchronizing files - Distributed Storage (Citrix) - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST A PATENT APPLICATION WITH SOME OVER-BROAD CLAIMS ON synchronizing groups of files from a storage system to a client device - This application from Citrix seeks to patent the idea of...Selecting groups … [prior-art-request] [pre-grant] [citrix] [file-storage] [us20130212067]   asked by Micah Siegel 4 votes answered by Ben Collins 5 votes 3D Printing - Seam Concealment for 3D Models - Patent Application - PRIOR ART REQUEST This patent application filed by Stratasys claims to invent the concept of printing seamless 3D objects by hiding layer path endpoints inside the object's visible outer surface. Letting this patent … [prior-art-request] [pre-grant] [3d-printing] [stratasys] [us20130095303]   asked by Julie Samuels 5 votes answered by holgero 4 votes

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