The purpose of patent retrieval:
The main purpose of patent retrieval is to avoid repeated development, so that the technologies, products, methods and processes developed by ourselves can be used and owned by themselves.
The reason of patent search is to see what kind of manufacturing ability and technical level others have in related industries and technical fields, and also to see whether the projects they are preparing or will develop fall into the protection scope of others' patents. In other words, you don't need to develop your own products or study a certain technology in a certain range.
Brief introduction of patent retrieval:
Patent retrieval is usually called patent inquiry, which belongs to a basic skill of information retrieval. Patent retrieval is the need to retrieve patents before scientific research and patent application, so as to avoid repeated development and infringement of others' patent rights. Searching in advance can also judge whether it is possible to obtain a patent right for this technological achievement.
Patent information retrieval is a term summarized by people engaged in patent literature work in long-term work practice, which refers to the activity of finding patent information.
The significance of patent retrieval:
1. Technical solutions that help to improve application files.
Through novelty search, we can obtain some comparative documents related to the application documents, some of which may contain references, thus helping inventors and agents to improve the technical scheme of the application documents and obtain the best protection effect.
2. It can help agents to better write patent application documents.
Through novelty search, the agent can obtain the closest existing technology. Based on this prior art, the essential differences between this application and the prior art are summarized, and then the beneficial effects and creativity of this application are described based on this difference.
3. It can help agents evaluate the possibility of patent application authorization.
According to the survey, at present, more than 66% invention patents can't be authorized, most of which are due to the existence of previously published documents and lack of novelty. Before the application, through novelty search, the agent can avoid the existing technology that affects the novelty of the text to be applied as much as possible, thus improving the quality of patent application and the probability of authorization.