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Tarek Loubani edited this page Nov 27, 2013 · 1 revision

Purpose

This is generalizable to the entire project.

There main objectives of a patent search are the following:

  • To generate design ideas
  • To not reinvent the wheel
  • To gain protection against patent trolls by deliberately not creating new works.

Methodology

  1. Patent search via USPTO patent search: http://patft.uspto.gov/
  2. Get the relevant patents and get the entire patent information via Google's patent search: http://google.com/patents
  3. Put all patents in the Zotero library: https://www.zotero.org/groups/free_medical_hardware/items/collectionKey/UWVQ29US
  4. Flag relevant patents: https://www.zotero.org/groups/free_medical_hardware/items/collectionKey/UWVQ29US/tag/Relevant
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