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Can you promote on r/patentlaw?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
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Reddit's premier community for patent law and case law, IP strategy, career guidance, the dreaded patent bar, etc., in the US or any jurisdiction. No conversations in this subreddit should be understood to establish an attorney-client relationship. Professionals: see our sister sub at r/patents for more directed discussions.
What its rules say about promotion
No adverts for legal services
All posts and comments that primarily serve to advertise a service to readers will be removed.
Link-only posts must be accompanied by a comment
Posts that are merely links to blog posts or articles are low-effort and must be accompanied by substantive discussion of the linked content. If the comment and/or link is deemed to be self-promotion by the mods, the post will be removed.
All 6 rules of r/patentlaw
- Relevant to Patent Law
All posts must be relevant to patent law (including patent litigation, patent prosecution, patent examination, design, utility, and plant patents, and industrial design registrations, anywhere in the world). There's some leniency for trade secret law, due to its overlap with patent law. Posts that are not relevant will be removed. If you want to discuss other areas of intellectual property, try r/copyright or r/trademark. - No adverts for legal services
All posts and comments that primarily serve to advertise a service to readers will be removed. - No soliciting business
This sub is not a place to hire attorneys or to solicit clients for business, openly or in direct messages. - Link-only posts must be accompanied by a comment
Posts that are merely links to blog posts or articles are low-effort and must be accompanied by substantive discussion of the linked content. If the comment and/or link is deemed to be self-promotion by the mods, the post will be removed. - Be civil
You don't have to agree with other users, but please maintain a basic level of civility and politeness. - No spamming without starting a discussion
Low effort bots have been posting short submissions from ChatGPT or similar models purporting to explain some aspect of patent law. These accounts never post follow up with comments or discussion. Accordingly, to preserve the high quality of r/patentlaw and encourage future discussions, the moderators reserve the right to remove such submissions as spam and, if necessary, ban the accounts from submitting in the future.
What the written rules don't show
- Unpublished minimums. Many communities remove posts from new or low-karma accounts through AutoModerator settings that are not on the rules page, often before a moderator sees them.
- Reddit's own filters. Reddit's site-wide spam filters can remove posts from accounts that mostly share links to their own site, in any community.
- The community's norms. Many communities see themselves as peers, not an audience: post where you already take part, and make the post worth reading without the link.
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