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Directing Prior Art Searches from Ask Patents
The Ask Patents site is largely inactive with truly "new" questions being a somewhat rare sighting. Most of the activity is very repetitive from misdirected patent browsers asking how a product works, ...
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Wrong site age for Ask Patents in SE site list
The wrong date was recorded against the site creation date.
I've updated to the correct date and following cache expiration all should be correct here.
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Directing Prior Art Searches from Ask Patents
It sounds like what you are seeking are expert opinions on whether prior art already exists for a particular patent application.
I think seeking opinions would be off-topic at all sites except for ...
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Directing Prior Art Searches from Ask Patents
Essentially, this would mean other sites would be subsidizing mindshare Actually, most of this proposal is essentially "How do we get the other sites, to get us the experts we have not attracted yet"
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