Cracking the Patent Search Code serves as an essential training and reference tool for inventors, patent attorneys, business analysts, professional patent searchers, or students pursuing a career in patents. Sudhanshu has propagated the methods in detail that are used in the art of professional patent searching, the current tool to accomplish that task, and approaches for reporting that information. Along with search tools, this guidebook covers a mixture of patent law, patent search theory, and practice, offering a global approach to patents that will be useful to patent professionals across the globe.

Cracking the Patent Search Code serves as an essential training and reference tool for inventors, patent attorneys, business analysts, professional patent searchers, or students pursuing a career in patents. Sudhanshu has propagated the methods in detail that are used in the art of professional patent searching, the current tool to accomplish that task, and approaches for reporting that information. Along with search tools, this guidebook covers a mixture of patent law, patent search theory, and practice, offering a global approach to patents that will be useful to patent professionals across the globe.

If you want to learn how to identify and protect the critical inventions developed in your business, you're in the right place. If you are confused about the patent application process and don't understand which inventions are worthy of patent protection, this book sheds light on those issues. You invest significant time, money, and effort developing new products and services. That means lots of late nights and missed family activities to perfect these inventions. You and your team are doing important work. Your inventions can make vehicles safer, get vaccines to patients faster, and provide improved teaching systems for kids. You want to protect those inventions just like you would any other valuable business asset. Patents provide a way to protect the inventions in your new products and services. Patents covering critical inventions in your industry provide a competitive edge during the life of the patent. In my experience, many companies do not understand the patent process and fail to properly protect inventions that are critical to the company's success. That's why I created the three-step system described in this book. The system has been tested with hundreds of companies of all sizes in a variety of industries. It's the same system I use every day with my own clients.

Whether you're a patent examiner, patent attorney, commercial patent searcher, patent liaison, IP librarian, law professor, or competitive intelligence analyst, you'll find Patent Searching: Tools and Techniques to be just the guide you have been waiting for, with a range of approaches to patent searching that will be useful to you regardless of your technical expertise or role in the intellectual property community.

Describes what a patent is and what it does, and provides the vocabulary, instructions, and strategies needed to patent search on the Internet.

Written by inventor David Hitchcock, this book explains step by step how to use an Internet browser to search U.S. patents. It discusses how to classify an invention properly, and then, using that classification, find all relevant patents issued within that class. Whether browsing infant flotation devices or computerized pet toys, the inventor can quickly tell by searching over the Internet whether he or she is in the running to be "the first." Patent Searching Made Easy shows how to: Conduct a full patent search Search patents filed in foreign countries Verify the patent status of ideas submitted to businesses for development Use fee-based patent search services online An ideal companion to Nolos Patent It Yourself and How to Make Patent Drawings, the 5th edition is updated to include the latest patent rules and regulations.

There's no sense spending countless hours and thousands of dollars on a patent application if someone else has beaten you to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Patent Searching Made Easy is the number one guide to understanding the invention landscape--whether you're looking to turn an idea into protected intellectual property, or just researching the marketplace--while avoiding expensive patent-searching fees.

This second edition provides a systematic introduction to the work and views of the emerging patent-search research and innovation communities as well as an overview of what has been achieved and, perhaps even more importantly, of what remains to be achieved. It revises many of the contributions of the first edition and adds a significant number of new ones. The first part “Introduction to Patent Searching” includes two overview chapters on the peculiarities of patent searching and on contemporary search technology respectively, and thus sets the scene for the subsequent parts. The second part on “Evaluating Patent Retrieval” then begins with two chapters dedicated to patent evaluation campaigns, followed by two chapters discussing complementary issues from the perspective of patent searchers and from the perspective of related domains, notably legal search. “High Recall Search” includes four completely new chapters dealing with the issue of finding only the relevant documents in a reasonable time span. The last (and with six papers the largest) part on “Special Topics in Patent Information Retrieval” covers a large spectrum of research in the patent field, from classification and image processing to translation. Lastly, the book is completed by an outlook on open issues and future research. Several of the chapters have been jointly written by intellectual property and information retrieval experts. However, members of both communities with a background different to that of the primary author have reviewed the chapters, making the book accessible to both the patent search community and to the information retrieval research community. It also not only offers the latest findings for academic researchers, but is also a valuable resource for IP professionals wanting to learn about current IR approaches in the patent domain.