Ask Patents Weekly Newsletter - Friday, August 29, 2014

Top new questions this week: Prior art for US patent application 20140196008 'IMMUTABLE OBJECT TYPES ' http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2014/0196008.html "At least some embodiments described herein relate to a language extension that advances safety in system programming. In accordance with the … [prior-art-request] [us20140196008]   asked by guest 17 votes answered by Andrei Alexandrescu 11 votes Looking for prior art for patent application US20140196015 "Declaration of Lifetime resource reference" I'm looking for prior art related to following patent: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2014/0196015.html DECLARATION OF LIFETIME OF RESOURCE REFERENCE A language extension that advances … [prior-art-request] [software] [us20140196015]   asked by Daniel Fath 10 votes answered by Hugo Dubé 11 votes Tracking patent history Is there a way to track the history of this patent? It was my Great Grandfather's and we never knew he held a patent. I'm interested in learning more, such as whether he ever sold the … [ownership]   asked by Joe Pigeon 1 vote Developed methodology listed in patent claims, yet not listed as an inventor? Myself and a co-worker developed the methodology for performing a process (software development), and we even helped author the claims for the provisional patent application, yet we have been left off … [software] [inventor] [methodology]   asked by GISer 1 vote Greatest hits from previous weeks: Is an expired patent in the public domain? From what I've been reading about US patents, once a patent has expired, it enters the public domain and can be freely used. The patent I was looking at was filed on 1/1999 and published in 10/2000. … [patent-lifetime] [maintenance] [expired-patent]   asked by Force Flow 1 vote answered by George White 3 votes 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 Are text and images in the patent copyrighted? Sometimes, during a patent research, I found patents which comprise one or more similar images and/or text paragraphs. Are text and images in the patent copyrighted? Does any 3rd party, other than … [copyright] [specification]   asked by dsplatonov 22 votes answered by dsplatonov 12 votes

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