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Services to verify software against existing patents
Greetings, are there businesses/services for verifying a software application/process against existing patents? for possible violations/infringements.
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David Johnson is right, that is never going to happen (unless it is a Scam). You are asking a machine to understand the meaning of words and sentences and images well enough to compare them against others that are likely using different words and images. People don't do all that well at that.
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David J and David B, appreciate the feedback. How about businesses you can hire to perform such services? Are you aware of any?
Yes, they are called patent lawyers and they are very expensive. This page http://mercatus.org/publication/number-patents-has-exploded-1982-and-one-court-blame shows that there were 325,407 patents applied for in 2014 and the article says that most were for software. You should realize that even when you are granted a patent, you will still have to hire lawyers to enforce it. The government does nothing but make an official record of it.
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Thanks Dave. If you are buying a software company, what type of "guarantee" would you expect from the seller when it comes to ensuring that the software you're buying isn't violating any existing patents? if the deal is valid and to the best of everybody's knowledge, there are no issues, is that all you can work with or do you/can you ask for more?
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I greatly appreciate the feedback gentlemen. Thanks again.
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Software is any set of instructions that directs a computer to perform specific tasks or operations. Computer software consists of programs, libraries and related non-executable data (such as documentation). Computer software is non-tangible, contrasted with computer hardware, which is the physical component of computers. Software written in a machine language is known as "machine code". However, in practice, software is usually written in high-level programming languages than machine language. High-level languages are translated into machine language using a compiler or interpreter or a combination of the two.
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