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Re: Show HN: View the patent and innovation history of any company

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Post by bjuly »

greensoap wrote: post #10
ccuqui wrote: post #9

I got curious and went to consult Amazon's patents. Among several others, in the same line, I found this one in particular: WO2020264431A1 2020-06-26 Connection pooling for scalable network services. I visited the patent page: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2020264431A1/en And essentially it's the (detailed) description of how a connection pool works. "Ipsis litteris" !!! Is it just me who thinks this kind of pa…

I'm not going to comment on the substance of the application, I have no idea. I just wanted to point out that A1 at the end of this document means this is JUST a published application. One would need to find each "GRANTED" application that claims priority to this application to find any patents. Then one would need to read the claims on each patent to really know what it covers. The WO at the beginning means it was f…

Hi greensoap, you are correct that Amazon patent application is not GRANTED as of yet. If there is a B at the end of the document number, it is GRANTED.

Re: Show HN: View the patent and innovation history of any company

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Post by bjuly »

ccuqui wrote: post #9

I got curious and went to consult Amazon's patents. Among several others, in the same line, I found this one in particular: WO2020264431A1 2020-06-26 Connection pooling for scalable network services. I visited the patent page: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2020264431A1/en And essentially it's the (detailed) description of how a connection pool works. "Ipsis litteris" !!! Is it just me who thinks this kind of pa…

Hi ccuqui, Thank you for using GoodIP IQ to learn more about Amazon's patent strategy!

Re: Show HN: View the patent and innovation history of any company

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Post by missedthecue »

bjuly wrote: post #28
bluena wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, leaderboard per jurisdiction would be super interesting. IBM with 287000 patents would likely be in the top ones.

We have a leaderboard per country. IBM is indeed No.1 for the US: https://goodip.io/iq/top/offices/us The all-time leaderboards for each industry and each technology are here: https://goodip.io/iq/top/industries https://goodip.io/iq/top/technologies

Impressive to see Union Carbide on the list, given that they haven't existed for 30 years.

Re: Show HN: View the patent and innovation history of any company

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Post by DoingIsLearning »

l7l wrote: post #27
_n_b_ wrote: post #7

I like it! I wish you could click on individual patents to see the full text of them, even if that was hosted elsewhere…

Thanks _n_b_, good point!

I agree, it would be great to be able to read the full text of a patent (or a link to full text).

If you are looking for feeedback, it would be an absolute killer feature if you can extract the patent 'claims' from the full text and have the option of expanding only 'patent claims' from an entry on the patent 'List' shown for a given company.

Re: Show HN: View the patent and innovation history of any company

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Post by sumtechguy »

bjuly wrote: post #30
sumtechguy wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some are defensive some are offensive. Someone like Qualcomm uses them to get a percentage of every device but also uses them to protect themselves against other companies, as they also sell chipsets. Also patents expire. So they may have one but after the time limit they are not really worth much anymore other than a defense. Would limiting the number they hold really help? Think one chipset they had to pull was ove…

Good point, sumtechguy! I agree limiting numbers might not really help. However, giving startups the tools to understand the patent game might help a lot. What do you think?

The tools unfortunately are not good. As it is a wild mix of case law, actual law, and cherry picked venues. Then add into that different patent government/private regulatory bodies that enforce it unevenly, too much or not at all. Most of the companies I have worked at they had the process down pretty good. But if I remember right the average to get one was 2-3 years, with a few dozen rejections in there. Most of that was getting the verbiage right to make it sound unique and have proper claims. But if you wanted to make it easier for people to do it you would have to probably convince a patent attorney to help write it up and how to make it work, and defend it. This is not really a 'software' problem but more of a people/process/politics problem.

Re: Show HN: View the patent and innovation history of any company

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Post by hungrigekatze »

I've noticed a recent uptick in suspect 'new companies' debuting on HN. By that I mean I think someone is testing what sorts of company ideas, products, etc. gain traction with the HN audience, but to what end, I'm not sure...

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