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the name of the game is the claim when you’re dealing with patents the only thing that matters in court or in terms of the patent’s value are the claims that get issued so here’s how you read a patent if you want to know how to build the thing that’s described in the patent you read the whole thing if you want to know what’s protected by the patent you only read the claims people commonly make the mistake of reading the abstract or the specification or other parts of the patent and saying I can’t believe the patent op off gave up this guy a patent on this thing that’s so obvious but when you read through to the claims you may well find that it wasn’t obvious at all the thing that they claimed they just described some obvious things in the patent application which by the way you should do as part of discussing the background that led you to the application anyhow till next time