How to patent search worldwide :
Patent and prior art searching is important. This is especially true for those of you who are new to the invention and product development process. Employees may inadvertently develop technologies that may already be patented if they are not knowledgeable of the state-of-the-art. Gaining a broad understanding of patent searching can avoid this disastrous outcome. Patent searching also provides a valuable means of guidance to inventors, showing them what not to do and likewise giving them direction pointing towards the future.

What you will learn:
This segment show you how and why to search patents and prior art internationally:

• The importance of qualifying patentability
• Preliminary and formal patent searching techniques
• How to use U.S. Patent Office Depository Libraries
• How to search patent & non-patent prior art
• Keyword, Patent Classification and Concept Search Techniques
• Learn the terminology in your field
• Ways to identify, analyze and qualify competitive technologies
• When a search is not necessary