Patent Search Services and Patent Search Companies in USA industry that has mushroomed over the past decade into a multi-million dollar industry. The rise of this industry has resulted from a number of factors such as awareness of the nature, strength and utility of an IPR; the ability to monetize patents themselves; the lucrative nature of technology transfer, etc.

A quick review of the websites of any patent search services companies would reveal that the common services include Novelty, Patentability, Invalidity, Freedom-To-Operate, Landscape, State-of-the-Art, Evidence-of-Use, Claims Charts, and the like.  All of these searches include several steps aimed at identifying the disclosure of certain concepts in patents.  The patents are then categorized and clustered suitably to meet the requirements.

Patent search service is a specialized skill and the manner of conducting patent search companies is a separate topic, which won’t be covered here.  The typical patent analytics firm is involved in the report preparation.  This involves the suitable visual depiction of the results in a manner that can immediately convey the entire analytics.  Tables, charts, color-coded texts, side-by-side comparison tables, contour maps, bubble depiction, etc are all used extensively for this purpose.

Hence, a typical patent search professional has the options of searching in any of these fields individually or in combination.  The nature of the search being conducted will largely determine the choice of the fields of search.  To be able to make a judicious choice, the searcher has to understand the role of the various sections of the patent.

Pitch Scientific has the acquired skill of conducting a detailed market research and then provide a report specially customized to the end user.  Such reports were well received by the requesters who have given their appreciation in a number of different ways- including pleasing words of praise as well as repeating requests for more studies.

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IMPORTANCE OF PRIOR ART SEARCH

Pitch Scientific has the acquired skill of conducting a detailed prior art search and then provide a report specially customized to the end user.  Such reports were well received by the requesters who have given their appreciation in a number of different ways- including pleasing words of praise as well as repeating requests for more studies. 

Keywords based search for prior art search service in patents database involves the appropriate use of keywords and all possible synonyms and representations of the keywords.  An important further feature of keywords search includes the choice of text field in which the keywords are to be searched. 

Typical patent contents include the front page, the description or specification and the claims.  Front page include several vital information such as: publication number, dates including filing date, publication date and grant date, along with inventors and assignee/ applicant’s name, abstract, and often a typical drawing that is considered illustrative of the invention. 

Hence, a typical patent search professional has the options of searching in any of these fields individually or in combination.  The nature of the search being conducted will largely determine the choice of the fields of search.  To be able to make a judicious choice, the searcher has to understand the role of the various sections of the patent. 

Claims are considered to be the heart of a patent, as it is the enforceable portion against potential threats.  Description section, as the name suggests, describes the invention in greater detail.  From a different perspective, the description section is used by a patent drafter to enable the claims, which means it is used to define the terms used in the claims, and/or explain the concepts in detail.  Abstract provides a short description of the distinguishing feature of the invention, while title gives a snapshot of the invention. 

Therefore, from the aforementioned, it becomes obvious to the searcher that if one wishes to identify all patents that are enforceable for a given concept, then the search for the concepts has to be conducted in the claims section.  On the other hand, if the search is meant to identify all the patents that disclose some features of interest, then the search has to be extended to all the sections without any limitation. 

Quite often, a search in all sections of the patents can result in a large number of results that allows for a meaningful analysis.  In such situations, one useful technique to limit the results would be to search within the title, abstract or claims.  The difference in the number of hits when the field of search is changed from all sections to only claims, title and abstract can be quite vast, sometimes as much as a 1/3^rd drop in the number of hits.  The relevance of the hits also sometimes improves by limiting to these fields of search. 

The flip side of the above situation is that by searching in the title, abstract or claims, it is also possible that very relevant results may be missed out.  Depending on the kind of search conducted, the number of such relevant results could be a few or many.  Regardless of the number of hits, the simple fact of the matter is that these are relevant hits and in principle, they cannot be ignored.  This means that a search in the description also needs to be performed. 

Hence, the searcher has to be very judicious in choosing or eliminating search fields for a particular search project.  The trick is to find the balance between getting few very relevant hits with the risk of losing out on relevant hits versus sifting through a large data set enduring several irrelevant hits to identify the most relevant ones.  The ability to find this balance quickly and efficiently distinguishes the good searcher from the novice in the field. 

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Patent searching is an involved process that necessarily requires technical expertise and knowledge of structure of patent documents.  While searching can be achieved through many different means, keywords based searching is the most commonly used technique by searchers.  This may be due to a certain level of comfort and familiarity associated with keywords based Prior Art Searches method.  Who among us hasn’t opened a browser and prior art search in USA for something we wish to learn more about using a suitable internet search engine like Google?  The principles applied towards such searching are directly extended to patents searching as well by the uninitiated and the incumbent in this field.  However, it takes some experience to know and understand that direct extension of these principles is not an ideal way to go about searching for patents. 

Prior Art Search Services

One of the aspects of Prior Art Search Services– much like any common searching on a search engine- includes the fact that the requirement to verify if the search is right or off track is vested with the searcher.  The search engine will only throw up results regardless of the subject of the search, as long as the keywords are present in the pages searched.  It is up to the searcher to review the results to see if the hits are accurate or off target.  Keywords based patents searching is similar in that respect.  A search for some keywords will always give results.  But whether the results are what is expected or off target is determined by the user.  Database providers give some insights about the hits by giving some parameters like relevance percentage or some such similar measure.  However, most searchers use these values with extreme caution, if at all. 

Prior Art Search Services in USA

One of the aspects about keywords based searching is that the keywords involved are typically very technical in nature.  Consequently, thorough knowledge of the technology in question is vital to ensure all the keywords are used while searching.  In this way, all different ways of expressing the same concept can be covered, so that all patents that use any of the keywords will be retrieved.  For in Prior Art Search Services in USA, it is necessary to identify all relevant documents, not just some of them or most of them. 

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Patent search and analytics is a service industry that has mushroomed over the past decade into a multi-million dollar industry.  The rise of this industry has resulted from a number of factors such as awareness of the nature, strength and utility of an IPR; the ability to monetize patents themselves; the lucrative nature of technology transfer, etc. 

A quick review of the websites of any patent saerch companies in Chandigarh would reveal that the common services include Novelty, Patentability, Invalidity, Freedom-To-Operate, Landscape, State-of-the-Art, Evidence-of-Use, Claims Charts, and the like.  All of these searches include several steps aimed at identifying the disclosure of certain concepts in patents.  The patents are then categorized and clustered suitably to meet the requirements. Read More

One of the implicit statements in the patent law is that the invention has been made for the benefit of the public, which the public can avail of upon payment of a suitable remuneration to the inventor(s) for the invention. It involves a technically qualified patent professional(s) to understand the idea presented, subsequently formulate an Invalidity Search strategy designed to churn out the relevant documents in the fastest manner possible. 

While it is ideal to perform this search at an early stage of idea conception, it can be conducted at any stage during proof-of-concept or development stage, but most definitely prior to filing a patent application.  An early novelty search would reveal any potential threats thus reducing wastage of valuable resources.  Such a search can also be used to refine or modify the idea to improve the final solution. Read More

High-quality prior art search firms reports that include patent documents and non-patent literature are heavily in demand for a variety of purposes.  These reports assist the requesters in making very important decisions. The requesters could vary from attorneys in law firms, to corporate attorneys, to technology heads of research organizations to even the CXOs of startups, etc.

The nature of decisions ranges from proceeding with a particular research direction to filing a patent to going after a potential licensee to filing a lawsuit against a potential infringer, among other such decisions.  Also, depending on the nature of the searches assigned, the type of report varies from novelty to patentability to invalidation to freedom-to-operate to state-of-the-art landscape and so on.  Thus, it can be seen that the ability to make such critical decisions is directly dependent on the quality of the prior art search India reports being presented to the requesters.  Here, we will address a few ideas on how to ensure the quality of search reports.Read More

1. PATENT LANDSCAPE

A bird’s eye overview of all the existing patents for a certain situation is referred to as a patent landscape.  This involves searching for patents in a specific technology domain, or belonging to a particular organization, or emanating from a specific region, or from an inventor.  The possibilities for conducting the search are endless.  Subsequently, based on the understanding and the requirement of the situation, the entire set of patents may then be suitably classified and clustered.  This requires a deep understanding of the technology and other aspects of the search parameters.  Ultimately, the depiction of the information gleaned from such a search and analysis can be used in a variety of critical decision making situations.  Exemplary situations include technology trends, research focus over time, white space or gap analysis, understanding the players in the field, focus of research & development, active researchers in the field, and so on. 

2. COMPETITOR ANALYSIS

From the several million patents available online, extracting those that belong to a specific organization is a specialized task requiring exceptional skills to understand the various ways the organization ends up owning or using the patents, trademarks & industrial designs.  Further, the search professional needs to be fully aware of all the various names the organization may have held in the past, as potentially, patents may have been filed under each of those names, and continues to use that name.  Other such situations may also arise, which may result in some key patents being missed unless one is aware of these specific situations.  This is essential because without a proper understanding of the competition, a business ends up chasing shadows instead of becoming competitive in the market place.  This search and analysis is now seen as a necessary aspect of every business in its efforts to maintain its competitiveness. 

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FREEDOM TO OPERATE (FTO) or CLEARANCE or FREEDOM TO PRACTICE (FTP)

Identifying patents that may be enforced against a product or service offering is the crux of this search.  In this regard, it is extremely important to understand that even if the product is covered under a patent owned by the proprietor, there may be components of the product that may be covered by a different patent owned by someone else, which may jeopardize the business built around the product.  The FTO search is designed to extract such relevant patents.  Thus, it is advantageous to conduct such a search well ahead of a product launch, and continue to do the search until the day of the launch.  This search idea may be extended to other forms of intellectual property rights as well, including trademarks, industrial designs etc.  For this situation, it is important to understand the territorial nature of intellectual property rights , as well as what makes an IPR enforceable. 

PATENT LANDSCAPE

A bird’s eye overview of all the existing patents for a certain situation is referred to as a patent landscape.  This involves searching for patents in a specific technology domain, or belonging to a particular organization, or emanating from a specific region, or from an inventor.  The possibilities for conducting the search are endless.  Subsequently, based on the understanding and the requirement of the situation, the entire set of patents may then be suitably classified and clustered.  This requires a deep understanding of the technology and other aspects of the search parameters.  Ultimately, the depiction of the information gleaned from such a search and analysis can be used in a variety of critical decision making situations.  Exemplary situations include technology trends, research focus over time, white space or gap analysis, understanding the players in the field, focus of research & development, active researchers in the field, and so on. 

Type of documents relevant: patents & non-patent literature

Timeline: From the beginning of time till date

Jurisdictions: Worldwide

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In the world of business, market intelligence is one of the key weapons in the arsenal of an organization to maintain competitiveness.  This involves gathering and analyzing information related to a specific market, service or product.  This requires detailed knowledge of not just the market, product or service, but also about product and technology life cycles to understand the phase of business, growth abilities, saturation point, etc. can be gleaned from such a report.  Thus, it can be seen that a report of this nature can only be provided by a team comprising business experts and technical domain experts, among others.  Such a report will also be able to throw light on the size and volume of a market, the potential income and profits that can be generated from a business, and other such details. 

MARKET & PATENT REPORTS

A good starting point for attempting any predictions involves picking up trends in that field.  Market studies are no different, and neither are patents.  Picking up trends in either matter would lead to a large cache of information, which in the right hands would become a powerful tool that can be wielded in a variety of ways.  The nature of trends could include trends in filing in countries, timing of filings, product launch trends, new and players’ emergence trends, and so on.  As can be gleaned, preparation of such reports requires a person with a keen knowledge of market forces, product lifecycle, technology lifecycle, patent lifecycle, international patent laws, and the like. 

Type of documents relevant: patents, news item, brochures, marketing materials, etc

Timeline: dependent on requirement

Jurisdictions: dependent on requirement

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