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Terms of Use

Last Updated: February 7, 2025

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  • The patent digesting sites www.patentdigests.com and www.patentdigests.net, hereinafter referred to as the "Patent Digesting Sites", are owned and operated by Clifford Shaw. They are experimental sites whose purpose is to test various approaches to indexing, digesting, and searching patent documents on the web.
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Last Updated: February 7, 2025

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The owner of the Sites reserves the right to modify the arrangements with the above third-party services.

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Last Updated: February 7, 2025

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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: February 7, 2025

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