Neuronal nets: Danger for process patents?

Process patents are among the most costly and expensive patents. Due to the complexity of chemical processes and a plurality of variables these patents have to be formulated in such detail, mostly including a variety of different values, that they may become 'opaque'. This involves, therefore, the risk that they can be circumnavigated by competitors who find other values just as suitable. Applicants for a patent try to compensate for this weakness by investigating all alternatives of potential competitors and by providing as detailed a description as possible in the patent specification. The situation applies to the values when calculating lenses and other optics. This paper describes a completely new method for optimizing parameters, for finding alternatives easily and thus to improve patent applications and to achieve the broadest possible protection. A process might be optimized or existing patents might be avoided.

Keywords:

• Process
• Patents
• Application
• Lens
• Examples
• Data
• Optimizing