Patentability and Novelty searches in USA and Canada

A Patent application must full fill the trinity of patentability in order to get patented in USA and Canada, the trinity suggests the invention must be NOVEL(new product or process), and it must have inventive steps (non-obviousness) and it should have industrial applicability (usefulness). To know if an invention is patentable or not, the Patentability and novelty searches in USA and Canada are suggested to all inventors before filing the application to their respective patent offices. A patentability search is done by finding all the relevant prior arts, whether patent literature or Nonpatent literature (any publication other than patents).

When and why to go for Patentability and Novelty searches in USA and Canada

Before filing the Patent application to the patent offices the Patentability and novelty search must be conducted. Expert search analysts should be hired for these searches as this search report determines the strength of your invention, if the search report gives positive results then you can file an application with full assurance. If the search report gives a negative result then you have a chance to amend some parts of the application before filing and make it novel from others, it will save your time and resources which would have been wasted at the time of the prosecution stage of the patent application.

How the Patentability and Novelty searches are conducted in USA and Canada

For Patentability and Novelty searches the most relevant prior arts are searched on various paid platforms (like Questel Orbit, Derwent world patent index, etc.) and non-paid platforms (like Google patents, Espacenet, Wipo, Google scholar, etc). The prior arts are further divided into Patent literature (having published patent data) and Non-Patent literature (any scholarly article, or research paper). It is to be noted that for patentability and novelty searches prior arts are considered from all over the world. After searching relevant prior arts the searched arts are mapped against invention in order to find similarities and differences, and hence reports are made based on the mapping.

How InventionIP can assist you in Patentability and Novelty searches in USA and Canada

We assist inventors and universities globally in their Patentability and Novelty search needs, our experienced team has a complete understanding of USA and Canada guidelines to prepare the search reports.

We have experts to provide Patentability and Novelty search in all domains of technologies. Our team makes a complete understanding of your invention and then gives the best possible search results to assist you in proceeding with the filing of the patent application.

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