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 p...
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 services in the 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 the text field in which the keywords are to be searched. Typical patent contents include the front page, the description or specification and claims. Frontpage include several vital information such as publication number, dates including filing date, publication date, and grant date, along with inventors and assignee/ appli...