Enhance Your Patent Searching Tool to Make a Difference
Data is changing the way intellectual property departments around the world function. The IP department is proving to be an actionable intelligence resource in corporate decision making, from portfolio management to offering insights to guide mergers and acquisitions. As a...
Advantages of Patent Benchmarking Reports
Companies must consider the patents of other companies. Understanding each competitor’s patent rights helps to avoid patent infringement, but the advantages of diving into competitor patent portfolios go much deeper. Creating patent benchmarking reports that compare patent data and USPTO...
When Should a Patent Invalidation Search be Performed?
A patent validity or patent invalidation search is one that is performed to determine the validity of claims. The steps for performing a validity search and an invalidation search are similar. The only difference is who is interested in conducting...
How to do a Patent Invalidity Search?
Assigning a Team/Research Team When your firm/organization receives a search request for an invalidity search, the very first step is to investigate the domain of the patent to be invalidated as well as all of the client’s instructions. Then, a...
How to Search for Prior Art?
What is Prior Art? Any proof that your innovation is already known is referred to as “prior art.” Prior art does not have to be physically present or commercially available. It is sufficient that someone, somewhere, sometime previously described, demonstrated,...
What is a Novelty Search and Why to Conduct One?
Novelty Search A patent search, also known as a novelty search, patentability search, or prior art search, is a search to find citations of similar nature to that of one’s invention. Google Patents, Espacenet, Orbit Intelligence, Thomson Innovation, CNIPA, J-PLATPAT,...
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