Patent searching made easy : how to do patent searches on the Internet and in the library / by David Hitchcock.

By: Hitchcock, David, 1956-Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Morrisville, N.C.?] : Lulu, 2007Edition: 4th edDescription: 5, 167, 2 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN: 9781430326403 (pbk.)Subject(s): Patent searching | Patent literature | Patent searching -- Computer network resourcesLOC classification: T210 | .H58 2007
Contents:
1. Introduction to patents and patent searching -- 2. Tools and resources -- 3. Patent searching at the PTO website -- 4. Advanced patent searching at the PTO website -- 5. Patent searching at the EPO website -- 6. Additional patent search websites -- 7. Additional sources of prior art -- 8. Hitting the books -- 9. Using cassis -- 10. East meets west -- 11. What's next? -- Appendix A. Patent and trademark depository libraries -- Appendix B. Forms -- Appendix C. Summary of searcher's secrets.
Summary: "Written by inventor David Hitchcock, this book explains step by step how to use an Internet browser to search U.S. patents. It discusses how to classify an invention properly, and then, using that classification, find all relevant patents issued within that class. Whether browsing infant flotation devices or computerized pet toys, the inventor can quickly tell by searching over the Internet whether he or she is in the running to be "the first.""
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Includes index.

"ID: 974927"--Cover.

1. Introduction to patents and patent searching -- 2. Tools and resources -- 3. Patent searching at the PTO website -- 4. Advanced patent searching at the PTO website -- 5. Patent searching at the EPO website -- 6. Additional patent search websites -- 7. Additional sources of prior art -- 8. Hitting the books -- 9. Using cassis -- 10. East meets west -- 11. What's next? -- Appendix A. Patent and trademark depository libraries -- Appendix B. Forms -- Appendix C. Summary of searcher's secrets.

"Written by inventor David Hitchcock, this book explains step by step how to use an Internet browser to search U.S. patents. It discusses how to classify an invention properly, and then, using that classification, find all relevant patents issued within that class. Whether browsing infant flotation devices or computerized pet toys, the inventor can quickly tell by searching over the Internet whether he or she is in the running to be "the first.""

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