patent prior art search and trademark search
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PATENT PRIOR ART SEARCH AND TRADEMARK SEARCH
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PATENT AND TRADEMARK
Patent – an intellectual property granted to an inventor of any new, useful, non – obvious idea by the government
Trademark – an exclusive sign, expression or design identifying a particular product or service
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PATENT PRIOR ART SEARCH
Prior art – all information in any form related to a patent’s claim of originality that has been made available to the public before a given date
Also called state-of-the-art conducted to ensure the invention is
‘new’ and ‘non-obvious’ important step in patent granting
procedure
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BENEFITS
makes the inventor aware about any pre-existing knowledge closely related to his invention
gives him an insight about the kind of research already done in that field.
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TYPES OF PRIOR ART SEARCHES
novelty search: conducted by professionals before a patent application is filed for, ensures the ‘ newness’ of the invention by searching into patent databases, utility models and scientific literature.
Validity search: conducted after a patent is issued, to declare a patent invalid if the patent examiner overlooked any information during the prior art search
Clearance search: to check if an issued patent violates an existing patent and if so, a validity search is conducted again.
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CROWDSOURCING
Popular method of prior art search where references are difficult to find.
interested people form a forum on an online platform and conduct the search.
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TRADEMARK SEARCH
Carried out through databases of registered trademarks maintained by governments
Search reports interpreted by licensed attorneys
by third party databases like LexisNexis, Dialog, Compu-Mark
Also by private databases and classification systems like the Vienna Classification
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