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Patent Search
Patent searching is a crucial tool for companies worldwide, particularly in today’s innovation-driven landscape where success and growth are often contingent upon groundbreaking ideas. To maintain a competitive edge, companies formulate their strategies based on various factors, with patent searching playing a pivotal role in providing strategic insights.
A patent grants its owner the exclusive right to prevent others from making, using, importing, or selling the invention without authorization. However, before such rights are granted, a thorough examination is conducted to determine if the invention is truly innovative (i.e., not obvious), novel (not previously disclosed in any published document), and industrially applicable (having utility). Patent searching typically involves search, analysis, and data mining, encompassing patents directly or indirectly in various ways.
Why Finding a Patent?
There is a need to carry out a patent search. You have free access, relevant, up-to-date information on competitors’ work. You can make great use of this information by carrying out a patent search:
- Patent searches uncover technical solutions that might not have been previously considered, offering valuable insights into new ideas and approaches.
- They quickly reveal if someone else has already had the same idea, preventing unnecessary duplication of efforts and resources.
- Patent searches help assess the originality and innovativeness of an invention, crucial for determining its eligibility for patent protection.
- They identify existing patents or applications related to the invention, including documents outlining the current state of the art or materials of interest to the applicant.
- By providing comprehensive information about existing patents and innovations, patent searches inform strategic decisions regarding further development, licensing, or commercialization of the invention.
Common sources for patent searches include...
- Keyword Searches: Using relevant terms and ideas related to the invention or area of interest as search terms. This includes utilizing synonyms, spelling variations, and acronyms to locate records associated with the same technology area. This is a fundamental and commonly used search method for patent searchers.
- Classification Searches: Utilizing specific codes assigned to describe various technical fields for classifying patent documents. Patents are categorized based on the subject matter of their claims. Classification searches help in identifying patents within a specific technical field. This method is particularly useful for uncovering patents that may not contain specific keywords used in searches but are relevant to the technology in question.
- Structure Searches: Searching for chemical structures on databases that index molecules. These searches are valuable as keyword searches often fail to retrieve relevant structures or their complete versions.
- Sequence Searches: Similar to structure searches, these are used for nucleotide and protein sequences.
- Image Searches: While not commonly available in primary databases, some search engines like Google offer image-to-image mapping search algorithms that help in identifying similar images. This can be especially useful for mechanical and electromechanical inventions.