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Patent Prior Art Searches: Basic Principles and Strategies
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: Received: 4 May 2022 / Approved: 5 May 2022 / Online: 5 May 2022 (16:42:58 CEST)
How to cite: Barbieri, M. Patent Prior Art Searches: Basic Principles and Strategies. Preprints 2022, 2022050054. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0054.v1 Barbieri, M. Patent Prior Art Searches: Basic Principles and Strategies. Preprints 2022, 2022050054. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202205.0054.v1
Abstract
From a strategic and an economic point of view, patent prior art searches are very useful for several reasons such as avoiding the infringement of third parties’ rights, reinventing something already new in the state of the art, speeding up the prosecution of a patent application, and getting a patent granted with a lower associated cost. A prior art search is carried out in patent databases (free of charge or fee-based) through keywords or classification symbols, indexing codes (IPC – International Patent Classification or CPC – Cooperative Patent Classification), or a combination of these, using Boolean or proximity operators. The classification codes are independent of the language used and can increase the number of relevant documents retrieved. Patent databases are all incomplete and therefore a search in multiple sources is suggested.
Keywords
patents; patent searching; intellectual property
Subject
Social Sciences, Law
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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