An Overview Of Patent Public Search
If you are serious about inventing you Must become proficient regarding patent searching. The Patent Office tells us that 97% of all issued patents never make back the money spent on their development. So what are the chances that somebody else already owns your idea? You don’t want to spend all your money on a patent, manufacturing, marketing, etc., to get your product to market only to have somebody tap you on the shoulder saying, “Guess what, You got a partner”.
It is also how you maintain your knowledge regarding the state of the art in your industry as well as inspiring huge improvements to your original idea. I once misunderstood a patent drawing and thought, what a brilliant concept this inventor has. After reading the specifications, I realized my mistake, but then I became overwhelmed with excitement when I realized, this is the most brilliant concept that I, Have Ever Had!
Eileen Fischlschweiger, Librarian, Senior at the Broward County Main Library, is the Patent and Trademark Resource Center’s Representative Librarian for the Fort Lauderdale PTRC for over 25 years. As such, she is the library’s liaison with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
She has been working with patent and trademark information for over 27 years, starting shortly before they implemented the Provisional Patent Application, and she has been on top of every change that has happen since then, thanks to annual training from the USPTO at their campus in the Washington, DC area. She has also implemented a program whereby an inventor working Pro Se, writing their own patent, can get help from a patent examiner in their art department.
This presentation will provide an introduction to Patent Public Search, the new system that is replacing the legacy patent searching systems PubEAST and PubWEST and the online patent searching databases PatFT and AppFT. Learn how to search with key words as well as with the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) to locate patent documents (issued patents and published patent applications).
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