"Patents are complex documents that bury a handful of important sentences under a mountain of fluff and jargon. If you're going to read a patent (and I urge you not to) you might as well start with the important parts, and read them correctly.
Lets suppose you want to figure out whether your new technology might infringe some patent. Here's a simple strategy I might use to start the infringement analysis.
First, skip down to the "claims.""