Patent Search

A patent allows the owner to prevent anyone else from constructing, using, having to import, or selling their Invention without their permission. Before providing a patent a complete survey is conducted in order to make sure that the invented procedure or process is unique. This involves analysing the entire database of the nation's patent authority for a specific project that is similar to the applicant's discovery.

To sum it up, a patentability search is an investigation of the patent database to see if there are any patent applications that are similar or identical to the invention being patented. A patent search can be conducted to improve one's chances of obtaining a patent registration or to learn about new inventions that are patentable.

A patent search is a search of issued patents and published patent applications for inventions that might be considered important references when applying for a patent. The prior art is anything in the public domain, patented or not patented, that may determine whether an invention is novel or not. Patent searches are commonly conducted by patent lawyers with experience filtering through hundreds if not thousands of documents to identify those most relevant to the invention in issue and analyzing these documents to provide an opinion on the patentability of the invention, and/or the inventor's freedom to operate.