Patent family and Legal status search
Monday, February 25th, 2008IPNews Flash:This free service allows you to search for patent families complete with their legal status based on INPADOC data provided by the European Patent Office.
Archive for the ‘Searching’ Category
Good article on Patent Search
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Different sections on Patent Searching..Click here
1. Introduction
2. General U.S. Patent Information
3. Why Conduct a US Patent Search?
4. Patent Search Databases
5. Patent Search Procedure
7. Learning From the Patents Found
8. Examine Products
9. Search the Marketplace
10. Search Inventions and Patents for Sale
11. Search Emerging Technologies
12. Miscellaneous Patent Search Links
Why do u conduct Patent Search…?
Thursday, February 21st, 2008- Determine if a particular invention is unique
- Identify potential features for new product
- Identify other possible uses for a new product
- Determine independent inventors or companies currently or historically obtaining patents in a particular area
- Find the patent(s) for a particular invention
- Determine the state of the art in a particular area
- Identify patents in a specific field for generating citation maps (a tool in determining the relative importance/value of a specific invention
- Study the rate of innovation in a particular area
- Determine the patent portfolio of a specific company
- Determine if an invention infringes upon the intellectual property rights of others
- Learn about an industry or a specific company
- Search for potential solutions to design or safety problems
- Identify potential licensees
- To identify additional reference materials (journal articles, books, product literature) of use to those working in this area. Patents often list printed reference materials.
- Identify inventors working in a certain field.
Do u know that…?
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Google Patent Search searches the USPTO database and can search full text of the older patents (that cannot be done from the USPTO site)
Why Invalid patents are granted by Patent Office…?
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce. The site gives the information about why, how many “not valid patents” are issued and their details- Bustpatents.com
New search engine
Thursday, January 10th, 2008http://www.freshpatents.com
New search engine for searching new and fresh patents according to inventor names, industry etc…..
Indian patent search
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Indian patents can be searched using this web link:
http://patinfo.nic.in/
Indian patent searching
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Searching patents in India: