それと、アブストに効果をかいたら、その効果を有するものだけに
限定されてしまうのではとの心配について。
The abstract is not intended nor designated for use in
interpreting the scope or meaning of the claims.です。
ですから好ましい態様を書いても大丈夫。要はアブストとは
『読者が特許文書への慣れの程度に関係なく、技術的開示の主題の
特徴を素早く確かめ、発明の示す新規技術が何であるかを読者が
知り得る様にするものである。（MPEPを読む by 藤芳寛治より）』
510 時間がないので英語で書きます。 ACLM/"and/or": 103085 patents.
I myself would never use "and/or" but maybe this is completely acceptable.
Some forms of alternative language is acceptable (e.g. Markush) as long as it's not indefinite.
One reference I have says that "an element selected from the group consisting of A, B, and combinations thereof" is acceptable language.
Sheldon, PLI, Sec. 6.5.22
So, "A and/or B" is probably just a short form of this expression.
Since these two expressions are equivalent, PTO must think that both are definite and acceptable.
で、and/orがそのまま認められるケースは確かに多いですが、少なくとも
翻訳者としてはand/orは避けたい。私もclaimsでは絶対使いません。
審査官の中にはMPEP通りに厳密にクレームを読もうとする人たちが少なからず
いるからです。
at least one of A and Bとするか、または
A or B or bothでしょうね。
別スレッド、および別ＢＢＳの波及なんですけど、
とにかく
According to the present inventionはいいけど
According to the apparatus of the present inventionとか
してほしくないのよね！
「〜によれば」イコールaccording toだとかin accordance with
と思い込んでるひとが沢山いすぎ。
>> According to the apparatus of the present invention
> the apparatus of が余計だけど、法的には違いが無いと思う。
> apparatusパテントでない場合には意味は変だ。
Let's say a patent contains 10 method claims and 3 apparatus claims.
Stating, "According to the apparatus of the present invention, xxx" in the specification may create an unintended limiting effect, where a court may interpret xxx to apply only to the apparatus claims.
The present invention relates to a sex doll for providing a user with sexual satisfaction, and more particularly, to a sex doll designed to be a human female in appearance which comprises a mock-vagina cavity.
Additionally, the present invention relates to an improved method of operating the mock-vagina cavity to provide a user with sexual satisfaction.
874 ：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 ：04/08/05 02:24
Asako Mizuno, comprising:
a pair of hands for typing English words at equal to or more than 8,000 words per a day;
a controller for controlling said pair of hands to type, and for selling a software online; and
a husband for programing said software.
(No copyright exsists for text of U.S. patents.) なので後で実例を引用して考えてみます。
[2317] Re^4: volumeの訳 - 投稿者：ST初心者 投稿日：04/02/26(Thu) 09:25:22
例文みつけました。
(No copyright exsists for text of U.S. patents.) http://www.uspto.gov/main/ccpubguide.htm
> Patents are published into the public domain as part of the terms of
> granting the patent to the inventor. As such, they are not subject to
> copyright restrictions. ...
"liquid volumes" appears in claim 2.
United States Patent 6,320,089
1. A process for isomerizing isomerizable hydrocarbons which comprises contacting an isomerizable hydrocarbon feedstock with an isomerization catalyst having an average pore diameter of from about 35 to about 60 angstroms and a pore-acidity index of at least about 7.0 and comprising an alumina support consisting essentially of eta and gamma alumina in an eta:gamma ratio on a mass basis of from about 4:1 to about 99:1, from about 1 to 15 mass % of a Friedel-Crafts metal halide and from about 0.01 to 2 mass % on an elemental basis of a platinum-group metal component in a hydrocarbon-isomerization zone at isomerization conditions including the presence of added chloride promoter to obtain an isoparaffin-containing product.
2. The process of claim 1 wherein the isomerization conditions comprise a temperature of about 40.degree. to 250.degree. C., a pressure of about 100 kPa to 10 MPa, a liquid hourly space velocity of about 0.5 to about 5 liquid volumes per hour of isomerizable hydrocarbons per volume of catalyst, and a mole ratio of hydrogen to isomerizable hydrocarbon feed of about 0.01 to 5.
A participle is a verb ending in -ing, and is called dangling when the subject of the -ing verb and the subject of the sentence do not agree.
An example is "When discussing race and gender, sensitivity is necessary."
Here the subject is sensitivity, but the sensitivity is not doing the discussing. Better is "When discussing race and gender, the student should be sensitive." Here the student is doing the discussing.
"When discussing race and gender, sensitivity is necessary."
"When discussing race and gender, it is important to be sensitive."
厳密に言えば変だが、どちらも普通に使われている。
>>> Having described........., it will be readily apparent to ・・
米国人の書いたものにもかなり見られましたが、これって文法的には誤りですよね？ (...)
Although the invention has been desribed in its preferred form........., it will <<<
United States Patent 6,772,438 by MS
Although the description above uses language that is specific to structural s features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not limited to the specific features or acts described. Rather, the specific features and acts are disclosed as exemplary forms of implementing the invention.
United States Patent 6,772,436 by IBM
While the invention has been particularly shown and described with respect to illustrative and preformed embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing and other changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention which should be limited only by the scope of the appended claims.
6,795,910 by HP
When a program instruction is operable to access a location in either of the stacks, one or more validity rules are applied to determine if the access operation is permissible.
Where the program instruction is operable to modify either of the stack pointers, another set of validity rules are applied to determine if the stack pointer operation is permissible.
United States Patent 6,793,788
Wang , � et al. September 21, 2004
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Method and device for hydrogen and hydrocarbon sensing
Abstract
One embodiment of a method of fabricating a sensor element for an exhaust gas sensing device_,_ comprises disposing an electrolyte in ionic communication with a sensing electrode and a reference electrode _to form the sensor element_. The sensing electrode comprises an activator comprising silica and _an oxide of an element_. The element is selected from the group consisting of alkaline earth elements, rare earth elements, and _combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing elements_.
----------------------------------------------------------------Inventors: Wang; Da Yu (Troy, MI); Polikarpus; Kaius K. (Grand Blanc, MI); Symons; Walter T. (Grand Blanc, MI); Kennard III; Frederick L. (Holly, MI); Wu; Ming-Cheng (Rochester Hills, MI)
Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, MI)
http://www.cas.org/training/stneasytips/patentnumber2.html
Unexamined applications (Kokai - kind code A)
・・・Before Dec 1999 Japanese emperor year numbering restart <- what the F. is a "restart"?
・・・Year 2000 forward Western year numbering restart
Examined applications (Kokoku - kind code B)
・・・Before May 1996 Japanese emperor year numbering restart
・・・May 1996 forward Replaced by Toroku
New law granted patents (Toroku - kind code B) May 1996 forward Continuous numbering
Under the old system, examined patents were published pre-grant (this second publication stage was called 'kokoku'). The last kokoku were issued in early 1996. Kokoku numbers started from zero every new year, so the JPO issued them with an Emperor year prefix.
A 1995 examined patent issued by the JPO would look like this: h07-12345 B2.
From 1 January 2000 the Japanese Patent Office will use the four digit Gregorian year in their numbering systems rather than the two digit Imperial year.
So, a patent application (Kokai) which may currently appear as 08-231479A would be given in the future as P2002-231479A.
Patent applications Pyyyy-nnnnnn
Published patents Pyyyy-nnnnnnA (patents based on PCTs begin with Pyyyy-500001A) Pyyyy-nnnnnnA
〜both for access and inventory tracking. ← This is perfectly normal.
これは、 both for access and for inventory tracking.
あるいは、 for both access and inventory tracking. ですよね。
〜by integrating into the key an a optical scanner.
これは、by integrating an a optical scanner into the key.ですよね。
>> Such as A, B, C, Etc. 程度の事を気にしてたらUSPTOのApp／Patent読めも書けもしないよ。
6,826,762
Inventors: Shell; Scott R. (Redmond, WA); Sherman; Roman (Bellevue, WA); Shen; Alan W. (Seattle, WA)
Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Merchant & Gould
With the well-designed APIs and interfaces of the RIL of the present invention, a third party software developer may write his code once and have it work on all devices containing an implementation of RIL, such as telephones, PDAs, etc.
Because the difficulties of implementing specific modules to understand different protocols such as TAPI, ExTAPI, SMS, etc.
