How can I determine if I infringe a patent?

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We are developing an online platform and marketplace for cloud-rendered CAD files (and other graphical content), with extensive social media features. It seems like there are many software-related patents out there for online exchange and sales of files, for social media implementations, etc. How can I figure it if we are infringing one of those patents? How widely do I have to interpret the explanations each patent gives about its invention?

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Steven weinrieb
Patent Attorney

You will definitely need a patent professional to help you, and you will need one who is extremely experienced in your particular niche, meaning, cloud files, social media, software and other platforms. Basically, however, to infringe one or more claims of a patent, your invention/system, whatever you have or are implementing, must include every component of the patent claim. If the patent claim recites something that is not in your invention/system, you do not infringe - which is precisely why you need an experienced patent practitioner to truly appreciate what the various components of the systems are, how they actually function, and what their equivalents might be.

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