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State of the Art Search
The state of the art patent search is the broadest and most general of all the patent searches. It is essentially a market survey that should ideally find out what technology already exists and then build on it. A state of art provides the following:
a) Up-to-date information about progress in a specific technical field.
b) Helps in identifying new areas for investment, Research and development, or acquisition.
c) Identify new competitors.
d) Identify new technological trends.
e) Knowing what work has previously been done.
f) what problems have been discovered and how they have been solved.
g) who is active in the field of art.
Every State of the Art search is customized and depends on the objectives specified by the client. Although the state of the art search is the broadest patent search, it must also be quite narrow to be useful. While those two concepts seem to be contradictory, they are really complimentary. The scope of the state of the art search must be broad in order to give a complete picture of what is out there. However, the scope of the search must also be quite narrow to be useful. If you define the relevant field of art as PEN, for example, your search would produce so much information that it would be totally useless. Even narrowing your search to a specific type of PEN, such as PEN WITH GRIP, would not generate a useful amount of information. The field of art that you choose to sear
ch must be very narrow. For example, the field of PEN could be narrowed by searching one specific use of GRIP ON PEN. It may be necessary to continue to narrow the scope of the search until you identify the truly relevant field of art. The narrowest definition of the relevant field of art that completely encompasses the field of interest is the best.
Therefore, the scope of the state of the art search should be broad enough to provide a complete picture of what is out there and, at the same time, should be narrow enough to limit the information gathered to what is truly relevant. Highly Qualified people at PSI are able to understand your requirements and will generate broad range of things that are happening in the narrower art which you are looking rather than generating Junk which is of no use to you.
Final out put consists of:
A) Specification of the aim of the search
B) Description of the scope of the search
C) Overview of material found divided into categories depending on its relevance in relation to the customer's invention
D) Search strategy and databases used for the search
