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I had a friend get in touch with me a while back about the legalities of web scraping. He found, and I’m finding too, a tremendous lack of information about web scraping. I think this is a result of there being so many strange ramifications depending on the many variables in the facts of each situation. I got interested in the legal issues involved in web scraping, and so I put together a hypothetical to test some of them out.
Patent Appeals
An appeal at the Patent Office is an administrative process providing for substantive review of some action taken by the patent examiner in a patent application. Where a patent examiner has twice rejected a patent application, such as for novelty or obviousness issues, an appeal can be filed to have the case reviewed by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.