The purpose of a collection search is to provide an overview of patents and published applications relating to a certain technology area or your invention. It can be useful to have a scope of a particular technology in order to determine how to proceed with your invention.
COLLECTION SEARCH COMPONENTS
- Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Headings
- International Patent Classification (IPC) headings
- US Patent Classification
- Assignee/Inventor Search
- Semantic Search – AI search for lateral searching
- Similarity Search – AI search for lateral searching
- Citation searches
- Keywords/synonyms and heading combinations
- Searching among foreign language published applications and patent publications
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU *
- The scope of the search is tailored to your requirements and can be limited by assignee, inventor, date, status or classification
- Comprehensive set of patent references
- Use of commercial professional patent databases
- Use of our experience to use your budget wisely by locating and searching in the relevant classification areas
- We conduct the search with the belief that there is something to find
- Patent and published application PDFs supplied, where available, as a zip file
- Machine translations of foreign language published applications and patent publications
* The time available will determine the comprehensiveness of the search and which components are covered. We always use time wisely and work iteratively.
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