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Patent Searching
Welcome to do-it-yourself patent searching with Stewart Walsh.
Course Outline
Do-it-Yourself Patent Searching – with Stewart Walsh
About this Course (3 mins)
Patent Search Course Outline (Click Link to Download)
You’re Doing it Wrong (when you Google for patents) (1 min)
What You’ll Need for Your Patent Search (2 min)
Prior Art, References, Rejection Types (3 min)
Looking at Patent Documents (6 min)
Limitations and Other Caveats of Patent Searching (5 min)
Search Tools Introduction (1 min)
Google Patents – More than Just Google (6 min)
Patent Classification – The Only Thing that Matters in Patent Searching (2 min)
FreePatentsOnline and USPTO – Useful Search Tools “for special occasions” (3 min)
Popular Patent Search Services Document (Click Link to Download)
Spreadsheets and Patent Research (1 min)
Patent Search Spreadsheet Document (Click Link to Download)
Walking through the Advanced Spreadsheet (3 min)
DIY Patent Search Spreadsheet Document (Click Link to Download)
Patent Search Tutorial Introduction (1 min)
Elements and Keywords for the Search (3 min)
Broad Searching (5 min)
Parent Class Searching (4 min)
Subclass Searching (3 min)
Reviewing Search Results (5 min)
How Will I Know When I’m Done? (1 min)
Refining the Invention (4 min)
Assignment and PAIR Searching (5 min)
Determining if a Patent is In Force (3 min)
International Patent Searching – Getting Out Into the Rest of the World (3 min)
Citation Searching – Letting the Patent Office do Some of the Work For You (2 min)
Conclusion (1 min)
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