Forum: Patent and Research Education

Hi, I just want to know that if during my search i found some arts which are already cited in the US patent wither by patentee or examiner, should...

CCD is a new search tool available from the Trilateral patent offices (USPTO, JPO, and EPO) that allows one to see all prior art that has been cited...

Please provide me some information on "Multiple Patent Study". If there are two patents in a Multiple Patent Study and I have found a reference...

"Esp@cenet Assistant" is a site developed by the European Patent Office that offers lessons in a huge variety of patent search-related tasks. It...

I have come across a situation where I have found a scientific article published 3 years before the LDPA patent application. The article has never...

Hi everyone, Today we published a blog post (URL below) about how to use the USPTO's Public PAIR platform to investigate patent histories as a...

Please read the highly enlightening article by Evert Nijhof in World Patent Information 33_4 (2011) 360-363. There are big differences in the way...

Hi all, If prior art material was made available prior to the latest date but, published/accepted afterward , is it still considered legit ?...

Biotechnology Meeting @ Merck Research Laboratories on February 7, 2012 http://www.piug.org/Biotech/2012/biotech12meet.php

In the modern business world, Design patent& patent application holdsa very prominent place.It exclusively fosters the way in which the invention...

8th International Summer School on Information Retrieval The 8th International Summer School on Information Retrieval offers high quality teaching...

ArchPatent.com needs you! The new prior art search engine was released in beta last week, and its creators are seeking any and all feedback from...

The link below is an invitation to a webinar hosted by the Patent Information Users Group. It is entitled "Searching the Derwent World Patents...

This is a thread to share innovative search techniques. Patent databases are fine, but please share techniques to find Article One prioritized...

The following is an audio clip presented by Computer, a publication of the IEEE Computer Society, in which a patent lawyer and a patent counsel...

IPKat has written a review of the new edition of "Intellectual Property and Private International Law" by Professors James J. Fawcett and Paul...

I am not sure why, but AOP's list of patent search resources is very incomplete. Off the top, they leave off freepatentsonline and sumobrain. I...

Here are some links to the Korean and Japanese search engines. This may be helpful if you're investigating any KR or JP patent families of a...

The PCT is an international agreement that helps to simplify the process of filing patent applications in several countries. PCT has been...

I've found this to be very useful resource to learn how to find prior art ...