Patent Searches
High quality Patent Searches require an adequate investment of both time and money
to be effective. Thorough Patent Searches require researches with a strong technical
background in the relevant area so they can accurately assess the prior art identified
and the researches having access to the relevant patent and non-patent databases. It is imperitive
that the searches are conducted using condified and reproducible search protocols.
It also requires time to conduct a broad search. However, effective use of new technologies
for patent searches enables cost effective techniques to be employed.
Our Patent Searches are performed by specialists with backgrounds in many technical
fields following our strict search protocols. Searches can be extended to
search non-patent literature references such as scientific and medical databases.
We are also adept at performing chemical structure or sequence searching to locate
a specific compound/sequence or a group of similar compounds/sequences.
Our industry leading and cost effective approach to searching includes various
patent searching techniques such as:
- citation searching (both forward and backward)
- classification searching
- full text searching
- mapping and clustering technologies
- machine translation to access foreign language prior art.