Prior Art Search Services in USA

  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...

Patent searching is an involved process that necessarily requires technical expertise and knowledge of the 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 the keywords based PriorArt 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 the 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 -...

Prior art search services involves a series of steps designed to extract the most relevant references for a specific situation.  This situation may range from a novel invention to invalidating a patent or obtaining clearance prior to a product launch.  A good place to start looking for relevant prior art would be in the patent databases. Pitch Scientific has the acquired skill of conducting a detailed Prior Art Search in USA 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.  A typical prior art searching process involves several easy to perform steps: Obtaining a keen understanding of the subject matter at hand Identifying the relevant field(s) to be searched in an appropriate data source Constructing suitable search strings based on the chosen fi...

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 search companies in Chandigarh services 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 the 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.   Pitch Scientific has the acquired skill of conducting detailed market research and then provide ...

High-quality prior art search firms report 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 priorart search India reports being presented to the requesters....

1.  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 are now seen as a necessary aspect of every business in its efforts to maintain its competitiveness. ...

FREEDOM TO OPERATE (FTO) or CLEARANCE or FREEDOM TO PRACTICE (FTP) Identifying patients 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. ...