How Prior Art Searches Help You Develop and Protect Your Intellectual Property
Author: Admin Post Date: September 30 2010How Prior Art Searches Help You Develop and Protect Your Intellectual Property
“The term prior art encompasses what is known to the public before a certain time, usually, what is known prior to development of an invention”
“Prior Art includes articles, domestic and foreign published patent applications and issued patents applications and issued patents, lecture, slide show, books and the like”.

A prior art search helps one to have a better understanding of the state of the prior art before filing an application for patent or launching a new product to the market.Here are some tips mainly on three prior art searches that is useful in developing and protecting intellectual property right. They are state of art search, a novelty search and right to use search.
State of art search
A state of art search is done to provide a general overview of the state of art where the investor is mainly interested. It mainly focuses on upgraded art documents. This helps in reducing time in researching specific points involved with invention. The search should be board as possible in order to have a better understanding of the state of art.
Novelty search
A novelty search is also known as patentability search. It is performed when an invention is fully developed but just before patent application is being prepared. It helps an inventor to have some idea whether his invention is eligible for patent protection.
Right to use search.
It is also known as “freedom to operate search”. It can be performed with or without any desire to have patent protection for the technology. It helps to determine an inventor whether his invention would infringe someone else’s patent.
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