Welcome to do-it-yourself patent searching with Stewart Walsh.
Course Outline
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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)