Patent Search

Patent searching is a key tool for companies all over the globe. To hold an upper edge, a company chalks out it’s road map on various factors where patent searching is practised as a necessary tool to give strategic inputs.

A patent gives it’s owner the right to restrict others from forming, applying, importing or trading the invention without permission. Before such a right is given, there is a precise check on whether the process or product is inventive (i.e. isn’t obvious), novel (hasn’t been foreseen in any published document) and industrially relevant (possesses utility). A patent search typically deals with search, research, and data mining.

It includes a search of the database of the intellectual property regulator of India to verify whether an already existing object or invention is either identical or similar to the applicant’s invention.

A patent registration helps you to get a patent of an intellectual property (an invention carried out by an individual or a firm). A Patent is governed by the Patent Act 1970 & Patent Rules 1972. If you file a patent now then after 20 years it falls under the public domain.

Why Patent search?

As a source of information. You may see technical solutions that you would never before thought of.
Patent searches instantly show if somebody has already had the same idea as you.
Patent searches reveal whether your invention is fresh and innovative and hence patentable.
To find prior art if there is anything already registered or under the process of registration that could also include documents outlining the state of the art or material which the applicant would be interested in.
To find out that if there is anything which has been already registered or is under the process of registration which can also include documents outlining the state of the art or any material which the applicant would be interested in.

Advantages 

It highlights the amount of competition. It confirms that whether the idea of your invention has already been patented or not.
It contributes to finding out what part of your invention shall make the most for patentability.
It gives you the exclusive right to stop others from copying, manufacturing, selling, or importing your invention without your permission.