Guide of Patent Protection

Hundreds and thousands of patents are being filed every month worldwide. There has been an increased activity from all competitors in all technology domains. This results in great technological progress, due to emergence of the new innovations.

All these technical data is presently been accessible through lots of free and commercial knowledge base. As expected in next 10 -20 year, there will be tremendous increase in the patent filing, law suits and a lot more in technology front. It is one of the reason that a lot of outsourcing companies have been evolved in last 3-4 years in India and most of them are providing better and quality services. But most of these companies, not in India, but from allover the globe are using conventional methods of patent searching, analysis and then creation of patent maps.

Thus, there has been great opportunity to enhance and improve the process and method followed by most patent professional, whether in outsourcing companies or in their own IPR cell.

I have been engaged in patent domain from long and always tried to learn new things and create insights. Conventional method of patent searching includes, identification of keywords, concepts and making a query in combination with various search operators (which various from database to database) in consideration of the logic and concept of the invention or technology. But, one thing which most of the searcher skip, is understanding the database behavior. It is very essential to get high and relevant document, if you have clear vision of the database behavior, i.e., when running a query, you should be able to understand what is going on inside the database, before it display results in front of you.

Similarly, there is lots of area in the IP, which needs enhancement to tackle the increased knowledge base in future.