The following is an excerpt from Wen Xie’s article in Forbes:
Imagine you are a maker of radars, lidars and other types of remote sensing technologies. Now, imagine you have invented a new radar system for detecting obstacles, debris or projectiles. Your new radar system can be implemented for planes and automobiles of all types. It can even be used for national defense purposes. And, your technology offers significant improvements over your previous models: It’s faster, more accurate and capable of a far more vast detection range. You file a patent application and you want to tell the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) how amazing your new technology is over anything that is out there previously. Here’s the problem with doing that.
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