Re: [PIUG List] Summary: requirements for becoming a professional patent searcher

I would add the ability to know when it's reasonable to stop. Never being
able to bring a search to a close because there's always one more source
that might produce something can wind up being self-defeating - but it
happens.

  - Sara Davis, GlaxoSmithKline - US





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Following some recent dealings with search requestors, ..the ability to
read
minds should also be added to the list.

Anne


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patent searcher


Indeed :)

At the risk of kicking in an open door:

Many people may fit all the requirements on education or technical
background and still not be a good searcher.
a certain state of mind is required, I agree on the flexible and
devious; maybe add some paranoia?

A good searcher always questions him/herself and his/her results and is
not easily satisfied, so (s)he is always checking methods and tools.
Self-critisism is a must.
Communicative skills are essential, since few people appear to be able
to ask exactly that what they want to know.
Customer-orientation is important; knowing/realizing what level of
result the customer needs - it's a bit overdone to overload a customer
with 1000 hits if 2 would be sufficient to solve his problem.


These 'soft' competences may be more difficult to train.
However, these are exactly the skills I find lacking in most people who
think they can search.




-----Original Message-----
From: Adrienne Shanler [mailto:shanlera_at_optonline.net]
Sent: Monday, 01 September, 2008 23:45
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professional patent searcher


I also want to add a flexible, devious mind.

Patent searching is an art as well as a science and doing the background

work is extremely important.

I look at a patent as hiding something in plain sight. The invention is

frequently referred to using an unusual designation or name or described
in
nonstandard or unusual terms. The name can be an old name or one used
only
within that organization. For instance, I was interested in a gene that
was
referred to as a certain kD size ORF, not by name, gene, function, EC
number, reaction, etc. I found it using a BLAST search but the text
search
also retrieved relevant answers not in the BLAST search (and vice
versa). A
second example is a US patent that described a set of polypeptides in
terms
of only binding properties. It was very broad and extremely vague and
from
the 1990s. I finally figured out it was trying to patent antibodies in
general.

As an exercise, how would (or could) you describe a diamond or
alternately
call a diamond?
--carbon crystalline lattice formed under heat and pressure
--transparent, colorless coal --substance able to scratch glass --stone
frequently found in engagement rings --Markush set of zirconia,
moissanite and similar entities etc.

Adrienne Shanler
shanlera_at_optonline.net



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