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What is a patent “Claim”?

by Clifford D. Hyra on November 20, 2008

Introduction
Many inventors initially have difficulty understanding the claims of a patent application or issued patent.  It doesn’t help that claims are required to be a single sentence (which may stretch to a page or longer) and contain specialized legal jargon. Yet an understanding of claims is perhaps the most important factor, in my experience, in [...]

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Glossary (What does this word mean?)

by Clifford D. Hyra on August 15, 2008

Since I am not writing for an audience of lawyers, I try to write plainly.  But, often I am not entirely successful and slip into jargon.  If you are not familiar with any of the words or phrases I use in my other posts, please look here for definitions.  Please let me know if there [...]

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