Cracking The Patent Search Code

Cracking the Patent Search Code serves as an essential training and reference tool for inventors, patent attorneys, business analysts, professional patent searchers, or students pursuing a career in patents. Sudhanshu has propagated the methods in detail that are used in the art of professional patent searching, the current tool to accomplish that task, and approaches for reporting that information. Along with search tools, this guidebook covers a mixture of patent law, patent search theory, and practice, offering a global approach to patents that will be useful to patent professionals across the globe.

Cracking the Patent Search Code serves as an essential training and reference tool for inventors, patent attorneys, business analysts, professional patent searchers, or students pursuing a career in patents. Sudhanshu has propagated the methods in detail that are used in the art of professional patent searching, the current tool to accomplish that task, and approaches for reporting that information. Along with search tools, this guidebook covers a mixture of patent law, patent search theory, and practice, offering a global approach to patents that will be useful to patent professionals across the globe.

If you want to learn how to identify and protect the critical inventions developed in your business, you're in the right place. If you are confused about the patent application process and don't understand which inventions are worthy of patent protection, this book sheds light on those issues. You invest significant time, money, and effort developing new products and services. That means lots of late nights and missed family activities to perfect these inventions. You and your team are doing important work. Your inventions can make vehicles safer, get vaccines to patients faster, and provide improved teaching systems for kids. You want to protect those inventions just like you would any other valuable business asset. Patents provide a way to protect the inventions in your new products and services. Patents covering critical inventions in your industry provide a competitive edge during the life of the patent. In my experience, many companies do not understand the patent process and fail to properly protect inventions that are critical to the company's success. That's why I created the three-step system described in this book. The system has been tested with hundreds of companies of all sizes in a variety of industries. It's the same system I use every day with my own clients.

Whether you're a patent examiner, patent attorney, commercial patent searcher, patent liaison, IP librarian, law professor, or competitive intelligence analyst, you'll find Patent Searching: Tools and Techniques to be just the guide you have been waiting for, with a range of approaches to patent searching that will be useful to you regardless of your technical expertise or role in the intellectual property community.

There's no sense spending countless hours and thousands of dollars on a patent application if someone else has beaten you to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Patent Searching Made Easy is the number one guide to understanding the invention landscape--whether you're looking to turn an idea into protected intellectual property, or just researching the marketplace--while avoiding expensive patent-searching fees.

This comprehensive book is the first of its kind to take scientists and engineers beyond simply getting a patent granted. Through the author's extensive technical background and experience in intellectual property licensing, it ties the many technical, legal and business aspects of patent enforcement to the innovation and patenting stage in the patent value chain, with the objective of helping inventors to create valuable patents that can be capitalized.In easy-to-understand language, this book covers various aspects, including basic concepts of patent laws and rules, innovation protection, patenting, patents post-granting and patent licensing. With over 40 tables, 70 figures, nearly 100 cases and examples, and a comprehensive index table, it serves as a practical handbook for inventors and patent practitioners.This second edition incorporates the latest changes in the America Invents Act (AIA), with additional case studies and illustrations throughout the book. For inventors who want to file patents by themselves, this new edition provides guidelines and step-by-step instructions on preparing and filing a US provisional patent application, while avoiding the pitfalls that commonly occur in do-it-yourself patenting.

This work first provides a general overview of the U.S. patent system, covering such issues as the patent document and patent infringement. The requirements of the invention and the conditions for patentability are discussed, with a focus on the patent application and the approval process. Major patent offices and international patent treaties are next examined, providing a full description of both the U.S. and international patent and classification systems. Methods for searching patent documents, the requirements of a reference, and general patent rights are discussed.