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[notlukesky]

What’s the best way to invalidate a patent when you have prior art from years before without lawyers? Or do you have to pay them no matter what?

[gota → notlukesky]

Please don't trust what I'm going to say without checking with a lawyer or someone who actually knows their stuff -

You can email the author, I guess. As far as I know patent authors have an eternal duty of disclosing prior art on their own patents.

I assume that if you email prior art to the author they have to report it to the USPTO. Not sure if the patent would ever be invalidated though