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The
first step to find out if you invention can be patented is to
conduct a free patent search online in any free patent
database online. How can you do a Free Patent Search
to find out if your invention can be patented?Some of the most
popular free patent databases in the world are www.uspto.gov, http://ep.espacenet.org, www.wipo.int and www.surfip.gov.sg. We will
briefly discuss in this article how you can conduct a Free
Patent Search in USPTO database. This is the first of the
seven articles that we will write to teach any one to use USPTO
website to conduct patent search. USPTO database contains over
33 million patent documents and is updated every week. The
website is probably the largest patent website in the world. It
provides a free patent search facility for both beginners and
advanced users. How can I conduct Patent Search at USPTO? The
answer to this question is given in a technical way in many
websites. We will try to avoid the jargon and we will try to
enable even a layperson that is not exposed to search databases
regularly to do it easily. The USPTO deals with conducting a
Patent Search using its freely searchable patent database
through the Internet. The instructions are given at htt
p://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/ptdl/step7.htm The
USPTO stresses the importance on 7 Steps each one to be done one
after the other. The free
patent search website http://www.tmpsearchers.com a> has started a patent training course online. We can train you
online wherever you live and the lessons and exercises are sent
on a daily basis for three weeks. We teach a simplified version
of methods to our students using Free Patent Databases. Although
a paid database is more user friendly, the official free
databases are updated with regular data and the expensive paid
databases take some time (a short time) to update themselves to
be current. Therefore it is necessary to conduct a search in the
official free patent databases online even after using paid
patent databases. A proper training and search strategy for free
databases is therefore very important. One problem is that the
USPTO does not allow you to do the free patent search on patents
granted prior to 1976 unless you start the patent search with
the class and sub class alone. So you need to identify the
classes and then do a patent research of pre 1976 patents also.
Our method slightly differs from the methodology advised by
USPTO and consists of 9 Steps. 1. Start the search with some
relevant keywords When you do a search using USPTO you will go
to the search interface at http://www.uspto.gov
/patft/index.html Start with the issued patents and start
with using some keywords, which are relevant to your invention.
You may use either the quick search method or the advanced
search method. Be sure to study the help pages at http://www.uspto.
gov/patft/help/help.htm and especially the page at http://www.usp
to.gov/patft/help/helpadv.htm if you are going to use the
advanced search method. 2. You will get some results and by
using more relevant keywords you can reduce the number of patent
titles to a minimum of about 40. Please keep a record of all the
keywords that you used. 3. Please note all the classifications
of cited in these patents. Note both the US Classification and
the International Classification of Patents. This is a must.4.
Repeat the patent search with the Published Applications using
http:
//appft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html Again record
the search queries and the classifications. 5. Now study the
classifications that are repeated time and again in your results
and try to narrow down the invention to some particular
classifications. It is not very difficult to do although it will
take some time. You may learn the other four steps by visiting
http://www.
tmpsearchers.com/patent-search.html These steps should give
you a very comprehensive picture of the free patent search that
can be done at USPTO. A similar strategy can be followed at
other free patent databases online using the International
classifications that you have identified. Working at the Free Patent Search
website http://www.tmpsearchers.com a> we find that we are able to find patents easily when we do
patent search this way, but the key here is to master the
keywords to be applied to conduct the patent search. If you want
to know more or learn other advanced techniques of patent search
using the free patent search interface of USPTO patent database,
please contact
us

About the author:
Ramaswami Natarajan is an Advocate and Patent Attorney in India
and he works for the Patent Search firmTmpsearchers . He is
writing a series of Articles to help individual inventors to
access Free Patent Data online using Free Patent Search
Databases.

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