Certificate Course in Patentability Search

This module relates to statutory considerations, which are extremely important to understand in order to analyse results of patent search. The module explains importance of statutory considerations for assessing patentability of the invention in a desired jurisdiction.

In this module we will learn various sections or anatomy of a patent.

Anatomy of a patent is extremely important to understand not only to perform a search but also to have general understanding about the patent specification.

In this module, we will learn patent search techniques used to perform a Patent Search. This module is divided into 3 parts.

As you know, purpose of a patent search is to identify relevant patent documents. The term patent document includes both patent applications and granted patents. It is interesting to note that the results of patent search may be used in multiple manners based on the kind of patent search one is going to perform. In all kinds of patent searches, the most critical part is to obtain the most relevant patent documents.

Accuracy of patent search result depends upon the search techniques used and the strategy employed to perform search.

In this module we will learn various techniques that are commonly used to perform a patent search.

Now we will learn further steps of patent search, that is adoption of various search techniques in patent and non-patent databases

In this Module, we will take up a few examples to demonstrate the process of patent search.

After going through the examples, you are requested to repeat the process of patent search independently and check if you are able to get relevant hits.

In Module 5, we will learn about the steps for writing a patent search report based on the results obtained using various patent search databases.