Patent Research, Part Ii
Posted on November 10, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Patent searches can be conducted in other ways. The Patent and Trademark Office distributes a weekly list of the patents that were successfully approved during the previous week. This listing is important in competitive patent categories such as pharmaceutical research, to keep abreast of the competition.
For more complicated searches, a visit to the library can be done to review the various patents. Another way in which to research previously issued patents is to use the Patent and Trademark Office’s “Classification and Search Information System (CASSIS)” to search for an old patent. “CASSIS” is available on CD-ROM for anyone who has a slow Internet connection, or anyone who wants to spend more time looking for a specific patent.
The research process for a single patent application is not usually overwhelming. When using the government’s uspto.gov website, it is pretty simple. When searching other forms of the patent database, the patents are arranged by the various subject groupings. Other forms of the patent database such as the microfiche can be used to search by category.
However, even if you know that a patent has not been previously issued for your invention, there is no guarantee that an application has not already been filed, but is not yet approved. If there is the possibility that another patent application is being processed for an invention similar to yours, then you will need your patent lawyer to carry out a more extensive search for you. A more extensive search completed by a patent lawyer will be able to correctly determine whether someone else has filed a previous patent application for a similar invention.
This search is recommended because it will save very valuable time by discovering if the invention you want to patent has already been patented.
After it has been established that your invention has never received a patent for an invention of this sort, it is now time to either consult a patent lawyer if you will need legal representation, or obtain the application form, if you have decided to apply without legal representation.
You now know how to research your patent idea before going and registering it.
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