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Searching for Patents/Products
Taly Sharon
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Patents? Why? Motivation for self-search Type of patents Resources Searching for American patents Patents alert Europe Searching for products
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyerAnd I am not advising here!
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Patents? Why?
Royalties to inventor Monopolistic power
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Monopolistic Power
Supply and Demand Monopolistic Pricing
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Motivation for Self-Search
Professional patent search is expensive
Required market search for non-patented products
Want to search early in the process
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Types of Patents
Provisional Patent (introduced 1994) Patent Pending (Applied) =>
Published Issued/Approved Patent Design Patent Trademark PCT/International
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Resources
Google patent search (search by number)
USPTO FreePatentsOnline ThomasDelphion – subscription
required for advanced search Lexis-Nexis Patent Alerts
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Google’s Search by Number
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USPTO
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USPTO
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USPTO Database
PN – Patent NumberCCL – Classification
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USPTO
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USPTO
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USPTOAdvanced
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USPTO – Application Type
1 = Utility2 = Reissue4 = Design5 = Defensive Publication6 = Plant7 = Statutory Invention Registration
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USPTO
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USPTO
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USPTO
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USPTO
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USPTO
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USPTO
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USPTO
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USPTO
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3 Dimensions of Search
Keywords Refs
Categories
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4 Steps for Efficient USPTO Search
1. Learn: field types and syntax Read help Use Quick search to build part of queries Then go to Advanced search to run the full
query
2. Refine/Enhance: Use a thesaurus3. Map: Use Refs to find more relevant
patents4. Exhaust: Learn relevant categories
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Free Patents Online
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Free Patents Online
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Free Patents Online
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Pay Services Easier searches Smart Alerts Examples:
Thomson Delphion http://www.delphion.com/Free basic search
LexisNexis http://www.lexisNexis.com/
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PatentAlert
Provides alerts on new patents
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PatentAlert
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PatentAlert
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PatentAlert
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PatentAlert
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Europe
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Tips for Researching Inventions/New Products Go to some relevant stores and look at
the product category Get keywords
Search in: Search engine (Google) Catalog search engine (Froogle/Yahoo
shopping) Images (Google/A9) Meta search engine (Clusty) USPTO/Delphion (or Formal patent search)
Repeat (to get more keywords/categories)
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Tip
You can find companies in the USA via the Internet that will search prior art for your invention for 250-300$
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Exercises Find patent number 6,598,100 Find patent number D501,656 Find patent 20040124160 Find patent 120,906 Find Google’s patents Find patents by Sergey Brin or Larry
page (from Google) Find patents on search engines Search who owns the concept “human
coupon”?
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Question from Championship
4שאלהאיזה פטנט אמריקאי רגיל שאושר בארה''ב מוזכר באוסף 1996 במאי 21ב-
הפרסומים של חוקר בתחום המתמטיקה בטכניון?
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Links
http://www.wipo.int http://www.uspto.gov http://www.delphion.com/ http://www.espacenet.com http://www.piperpat.com/
DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=224 http://www.surfip.gov.sg