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How to read patents

Revision as of 15:58, 22 March 2010 by Ciaran (talk | contribs) (External links: * [http://news.swpat.org/2010/03/transcript-tridgell-patents/ Andrew Tridgell: Reading patents and building a legal defence], presentation transcript)

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.

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