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What is patent application search?

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What is patent application search?

A patent application search or a patent search is a search of existing patents and other publicly available documents (so-called "state of the art") to find existing material that is closest to your invention. Patents are examined by the Patent Office to compare the claimed invention with the prior art, and a patent may be granted if the patent examiner is satisfied that an invention is new and not a patent.

A patent search is often the first step in the patent process. The purpose of a patent search is to determine how an invention differs from what is already in previous art. A patent search will not tell you whether your invention infringes on someone else's patent.

Patent discovery benefits the inventor by identifying the nearest prior art so that we can determine how patentable the invention is and what specific parts of the invention differ most from the prior art. A patent hunt may likewise uncover that the creation has as of now been made by the innovator, regardless of whether the development was rarely financially accessible.

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