Tips for conducting patent search, patent strategies and criteria for patent search. What are the main things needed to be on focus if you want to survive this dynamic era of patent search strategies.

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new capabilities of Patent Search
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Legal Reasons

4. Understandthelegalreasonsforthe
search
Whether it is conducted to
encourage product development,
gain competitive intelligence, or to
defeat impending litigation, all
technology searching will have legal
motivations and ramifications.
The legal aspects of the patent
system will always influence not
only why, but also how searches are
conducted.
Presentations and text books
are good for understanding
concepts.
The more a searcher knows
about the reasons
motivating a search request,
the more intelligently the
search can be adjusted to suit
the recipient’s
ultimate needs.
To understand special types of
search requests motivated by
legal needs, see the articles
on patentability, infringement
and validity searching

6. Understandthe“stateoftheart”inthe
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Essentially, searchers need to be
aware of what ideas are cutting
edge, what is known as protected
technology and what is commonly
used in the public domain.
Ideally, searchers should have a
technical background closely related
to the search subject matter, and
should already understand these
aspects of their field.
Entire libraries of up-to-date
textbook resources are now
available on the web, such as
Knovel.com.
Searchers can also look for
seminal articles in the field by
using the citation impact feature
available from major non-patent
search providers like Google
Scholar.
Browsing new issues of leading
journals, or even surfing web
sources like technology blogs,
can likewise get users oriented
as to the direction current
research is taking.

8. Understandsearchscope
If the motivations behind conducting
the search are properly understood,
this is usually fairly straightforward.
Selecting sources requires an
understanding of what kind of
documents are “of interest”; for
example, an infringement
investigation might be directed only
towards live patent documents,
while a patentability search would
encompass any publicly available
information, in patents, scientific
journals, or even available on the
Web.
The appropriate search sources
may vary given the search
budget limitations.
Validity investigations usually
justify more cost and extensive
searching than a quick-and-dirty
patentability study. It might be
feasible to include more
expensive,
highly curated collections in the
search, as opposed to a simple
low-cost search in major online
sources.

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