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Dan Shapiro » How to read a patent in 60 seconds Step 1: Skip the title Step 2: Skip the drawings Step 3: Skip the abstract Step 4: Skip the specification Step 5: Find the independent claims, and read them Step 6: Back to skipping – toss the dependent claims [unless the independent ones are bogus/obvious] Useful for checking “requests for prior art” in Ask Patents

An email from someone that has been through this « X-Plane How to react to a patent troll: (…) the initial response needs to be focused and correct (and aggressive, might have mentioned that). You need to react like a rattle snake.