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Revision as of 11:04, 16 May 2010
When reading patents, the most important part of a patent are the "claims". These are the ideas that are covered by the patent. The abstract of the patent is just a description. It's a common mistake to read the abstract as a summary - it is not a summary. The abstract just describes the domain in which the claims are situated.
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Reading case law
- Searching for patents
- State of the art - and what is "prior art"?
- Design patents - which are not the same as normal patents
- Software patents are unreadable
- Patent governance
