PATENTABILITY / NOVELTY / PRE-FILING SEARCHES
Providing the right references to support your patentability opinions
We have extensive experience in undertaking patentability searches for a wide range of subject matter, including mechanical, engineering, medtech and medical devices and processes.
PATENTABILITY SEARCH COMPONENTS
Multiple approaches
Our search for prior art can cover the following components:
- Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Headings
- International Patent Classification (IPC) headings
- F-Terms (Japanese Patent Classification)
- US Patent Classifications
- Assignee/Inventor Search
- Semantic Search – AI search for lateral searching
- Similarity Search – AI search for lateral searching
- Citation searches
- Keywords/synonyms and heading combinations
- Internet search
- Searching among foreign language published applications and patent publications
- Non-patent literature
Each patent search is unique and is tailored to your requirements. We use developed methodologies and strategies to locate a comprehensive set of relevant results, helping you to make an informed opinion. Reports can be formatted according to your preferences.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
Where a knock-out document is not located, we will aim to provide prior art patent references that can be combined for obviousness purposes
- Comprehensive set of patent references, where available
- 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
- Useful patentability report formats that reduce your review time
- Where a knock-out document is not located, we will aim to provide prior art patent references that can be combined for obviousness purposes
- 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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