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Many valuable information is now available from the industry in various databases on the Internet. Among all the patents, the most important and easily accessible. Patentrecherche give insights into the state of the art in any technical field. It can be a platform for monitoring the activities of competitors, who are the companies that in one area of technology that interest you. patent search data can also use the technology "road map" to a particular invention, science or the logic behind the invention and its application.

However the legal nature of patents and therefore an uncompromisingly formal style. They are in one language, sometimes so severe that they are no longer obscure the nature of the invention, as they shed. Even the millions of patents are terminated in different databases and in each case coded and grouped by one of several classification systems. The patent family information is also between different databases.

A qualified patent search requires in-depth knowledge of a number of software tools, search commands, searching and classification systems. That is the reason why patent search is an expert in the workplace. In recent years the demand for a professional patent searcher has.

Advantages of free access to Web databases that they are an inexpensive means of doing background searches. The problem is that it is a serious disadvantage for more decisive searches. For example, databases are generally free from the patent issuing authorities (usually the national patent offices), so that their content is limited to patents, some of this authority. There is no universal structure, so that the fields are not searched in different databases. There is no "added value" - how to read abstracts in plain English, which has patent information provider Thomson Derwent its enviable reputation. There is rarely a patent analysis technologies. And they do not offer the possibility of sophisticated, command driven, Boolean searches, such as by powerful tools from companies such as Host-Dialog, Delphion, Questel-Orbit, and STN MicoPat - including the parallel search in several (commercial and free) databases at once.

More importantly, a quick and easy search for a free site is extremely unlikely to detect stealth patents "or" hidden patents - one of the latest IP protection tricks. The authors of these patents deliberately obfuscating choose keywords and try their Patents incorrectly so that others "will not throw it. Whereas the patent database providers for access to patent collections around the world, along with value-added patent information, different analytical tools and other technologies. A number of these commercial providers have recently launched new innovative functions in addition to search

Why conduct a patent search?

A. Patent searches are used for many purposes. Among them are:

1. Determine whether a particular invention is unique

2. Potential functions for new product

3. Identify other uses for a new product

4. Determine independent inventors or companies currently or historically obtaining patents in a given area

5. Find the patent (s) for a certain invention

6. Determine the state of the art in a specific area

7. Identify patents in a given area for the production of citation tickets (an instrument used to determine the relative importance / value of a specific invention

8. Study the proportion of innovations in a particular area

9. Determine the patent portfolio of a particular company

10. Specify whether an invention against the intellectual property rights of others

11. Find out more about an industry or a particular company

12. Search for possible solutions for the design and safety problems

13. Potential licensees

14. To identify additional reference materials (magazines, books, product literature) useful in this area. Patents are often printed reference materials.

15. Identify inventors, in a given area.

Patent Search Procedures:

A. The steps

1. Search the Web for the latest information about the scope of work, and select the specific keywords to describe the area of interest and control patents. To start with the search after a certain patents to be aware of in this area, the patents of firms in this field, patents invented by inventors in this field, etc. This step is called a "shoot from the top."

2. Try a couple of words in the corresponding word search engine and see what comes. If to all patents in the "shoot from the hip" step, it checks for possible keywords. Note the keywords on a page in a project notebook and other words as they encounter the head or in other patents. In general, the word list will be separated into groups of words, the various aspects of the invention.

3. Call the classification index. In the paper, it is about the size of a small town phone book. Search for your topic and find a class. The area you are interested, you can more class numbers (eg propulsion and marine propeller (impeller) are in two different classes).

4. Access to the Manual of Classification (on paper, it is a large number of 3 band ring binders). Please contact or click on the category you are interested in and identify the specific subclass best to your topic. You may need some help in understanding the hierarchial list of subcategories. Many are subclasses of subclasses.

5. Call the classification definitions. It was on microfiche, but now you can access it online. See the specific class and subclass were examined. Make sure that you are really hunting for the article is similar to the definition of this class / subclass. Often, additional guidance for the other places to look, including the classes no longer exists.

6. Keep cycling through the three instruments (Classification Index, Manual of Classification and Classification Definitions), to the appropriate classes and subclasses.

7. Search the database to identify patents in the classes / subclasses identified.

8. Check the ABSTRACT and image of these patents to identify which of your device. Make copies of the drawings, summary and description of patents are very similar and the invention of inventions serve the same purpose.

After steps 1-7, the patents for:

a. companies, often as a legal successor (patents on them). Search other patents for these companies in an attempt to more patents in the area of interest.

b. Inventors often not on the patents (both independent and those for enterprises). Search other patents selecting these persons as inventors in an attempt to more patents in the area of interest.

c. Find the words and combinations of words in the patents of interest. Sort the words into groups. Some describe an aspect of the invention and some others describe. Note the search words on the list started earlier. Search other patents with these words in an attempt to more patents in the area of interest. Be aware of what part of the patent you are looking for (for example to search only the abstract, just a title page, full-text).

d. Check the patents cited as reference by the patents of interest to see if some of them are of interest.

e. Check the category and subcategory information of the patents of interest in an attempt to other classes and subclasses of the patents of interest. Browse these new categories / subcategories for additional patents are of interest.

9. Keep cycling through the steps 1-8 over and over until no more patents of interest.

Conclusion

The patent search is an effective tool for reducing the patent data used in the competitive analysis. A very different knowledge of the patent database, whose classification is for a patent in-depth research. Patent searching is an essential condition for patentability, VALIDITY, INFRINGEMENT analysis, etc. This creates a qualified professional patent search is necessary to know the different search methods, data limitations and technical tools and software, a good search result.

Vinod Kumar Singh
Knowledge Scientist
E-mail: vinod.patent @ gmail.com
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