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Patent Search Best Practices
Under pressure to meet shorter deadlines and find cost savings, IP departments are increasingly looking to external specialists to handle their patent search projects quickly and efficiently. But, with so many search firms in the market, how do you know which is the right partner for you?
Whether you're looking to upgrade your search technology or to outsource the entire patent search process, you can navigate the transition in confidence with these practical tips, tricks, tools and helpful resources.
Read on to discover:
- Which patent search solution to choose
- How to select the right patent search provider
- Resources to support your patent search process
- 6 reasons to work with Questel
- Outsource Patentability, Freedom-to-operate, or Invalidity Searches
Identify and prioritize prior art patent status prior to filing new patents, identify patents likely to cover specific technological characteristics, or search for state-of-the-art documents to invalidate the main claims of a patent application or granted patent.
- Do it Yourself with Cutting-edge Patent Search Software
Companies that prefer to manage patent searches in-house need access to state-of-the-art tools. Our Orbit IP intelligence software is designed to help you accelerate your patent analysis and make informed decisions.
How to Select the Right Patent Search Partner
While tech-driven search providers generate the most thorough and precise patent searches, not all search technology is created equal. We recommend considering these three key questions when selecting a supplier:
- 1. How easy is it to order searches—are their systems secure, transparent, and collaborative?
- 2. What types of resources do they have available in terms of databases and people—can they handle volume and deadlines cost-effectively?
- 3. What types of deliverables do they offer, and how is their use of technology improving their service?
- Patent Search Tips & Tricks:
Discover how to Unleash Your Patent Potential with Orbit Intelligence - Prior Art Searching:
Beyond Traditional Prior Art Searching
- Patent Search Techniques:
Five High-Level Steps in Search Strategy Building - Patent Invalidity Searching:
A Comprehensive Guide with Orbit Intelligence - Standard Essential Patents:
How to Do a Prior Art Search for SEPs
- Patent Search Tips & Tricks:
Discover how to Unleash Your Patent Potential with Orbit Intelligence - Prior Art Searching:
Beyond Traditional Prior Art Searching
- Patent Search Techniques:
Five High-Level Steps in Search Strategy Building - Patent Invalidity Searching:
A Comprehensive Guide with Orbit Intelligence - Standard Essential Patents:
How to Do a Prior Art Search for SEPs
- Patent Search Tips & Tricks:
Discover how to Unleash Your Patent Potential with Orbit Intelligence - Prior Art Searching:
Beyond Traditional Prior Art Searching
Drawing on our decades of global patent search, across many languages and technical fields, Questel’s patent search services and specialist search technologies ease the research burden on busy in-house teams and their external law firm advisors. Here are six great reasons to make Questel your patent search partner.
With a database of over 100 million patents, 17 million designs, and 150 million non-patent literature (including clinical trials, projects, and scientific documents) and frequent updates, Questel’s Orbit Intelligence search software leads the industry in patent data quality and update frequency.
Search our extensive databases by families or publications using keywords, classifications, assignees, inventors, countries, UPC opt-outs, representatives, citations, and more. Collaborate and analyze results and set up alerts by technology, assignee, and legal status alerts.
We are continually investing in new technologies, adding new functionality to our IP Intelligence Software, such as US examiner statistics and EPO families by priority document, including divisionals and continuations.
We have embraced the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) through our secure AI-based tools, including semantic search using AI, machine translations and ChatGPT (find out more about our AI patent classification module AI-Classifier).
Our search processes and software are ISO 27001 certified for data security to ensure the confidentiality of your patent searches.
We believe that it is the combination of our people and our tools that makes a difference to our clients. That’s why the support team on our global helpdesk is reachable by email and phone whenever you need them.
To find out more about our patent search solutions, schedule a meeting with one of our subject matter experts today.