Inventors and entrepreneurs who are looking to cut costs frequently want to do their own search. This is a wise first move, but you really need to be careful. It is quite common for inventors to ...

This communication provides an easy-to-follow protocol for using the free Internet-accessible scientific search engine, Scirus, to search for and subsequently retrieve published patents from several ...

I frequently get questions about patent searches from independent inventors, and one of the most common questions relates to timing. They ask: “When should I do a patent search?” A reasonable question ...