There are five main types of patent search, and here’s what they’re called, what their purpose is, and when they’re used.

This covers:

• Novelty (Patentability) Search
• Freedom-to-Operate Search
• Validity/Invalidity Search
• State-of-the-Art Search
• Landscape Search

Too many inventors shy away from patent searches because they think patent searches are too expensive. The thing is, it’s much less expensive to do a search than to deal with the consequences of not doing one and finding out the hard way you should have done one.

Some inventors get confused and intimidated by not knowing what kind of patent search they need. Now that won’t be you.

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