Patent Search & Research Services
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About Our Patent Search Services
In order to make profound decisions regarding the protection and further development of your patent portfolio and to identify potential obstacles, you need extensive information. Seprotec is an experienced provider of IP management solutions and helps its customers to gather all relevant information around the world.
Be it to gain inspiration and information, as a basis for decision making or to monitor the competition.
Depending on the objective, our team supports inventors and corporates with general reports or an in-depth analysis of each individual claim of a patent by conducting various types of expert patent searches, including Landscapes Patentability Novelty Freedom-to-operate (FTO) opinions Infringements Our international patent search team is specialized in conducting searches in several languages, combining a variety of global article and patent databases, such as from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), or the European Patent Office (EPO).
Key Benefits
Information & analysis
Get insights into the patent landscape and find out what the current state-of-the-art is and what innovations your competitors are developing to drive your business forward.
Innovation & decision-making
Use search results as a basis for your innovation process, whether it is to decide if patent protection is worth the risk or to develop new inventions.
Protection & defense
Protect your inventions by conducting prior art and novelty searches prior to the application process and by defending them against possible infringements by your competitors.
Why Choose Seprotec?
With 25 years of experience, Seprotec enables companies to protect their intellectual property worldwide. We offer comprehensive patent search solutions to provide our clients with all the information they need to manage their patent portfolio.
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Seprotec has a large international network of various IP professionals, including patent researchers agents and language specialists, who support your patent portfolio internationally.
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Not every patent search project is the same, which is why we support our customers with different types of searches - for the best possible basis for deciding on their search strategy.
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Seprotec offers comprehensive solutions for patents, trademarks, and designs from searches to annuities – covering the entire lifecycle of your intellectual property.
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We provide our customers with a dedicated contact person who supports them in all aspects of our services relating to their patent portfolio.
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As experts in the field of intellectual property management solutions, we have in-depth expertise and years of experience supporting our customers.
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Seprotec has offices worldwide enabling us to support our customers' operations globally across all time zones – for the best possible service.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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How to get a patent search done and where to search?
Nowadays, the first step is to use internet search engines. They are free to use and no special knowledge is required. However, even if the results are sometimes very useful, they are often unqualified or incomplete.
The public registers of the patent authorities themselves are of essential importance for conducting a professional search. You will find complete original documents of worldwide applications and granted patents.
The most reliable option is, however, to use a professional provider to conduct a search. At the beginning of a professionally conducted research, a search system is created on the basis of the invention description, whereby core and supplementary search terms and their synonyms are determined. Using e.g. the IPC (International Patent Classification) classes and subclasses.
This procedure not only requires experience in dealing with international patent databases and search commands, but also in working with different languages. -
What are the benefits of patent search?
Patent search is a crucial step in the process of filing a patent, allowing inventors to ensure the validity and efficiency of their patent. A thorough search helps to identify any existing patents and state of the art documents that may exist for example in the U.S. Patent offices database. Ultimately, leveraging a wide range of non-patent and official patent databases leads to the most precise results.
By processing the results, the search can be used as a basis for strategic decision-making on whether to take the risk of disclosing inventions in the granting process. As this search process also helps to ensure that patents are meticulously researched for invalidity or evidence of use agreements. -
How much does a patent search cost?
The effort required for a search and the associated costs depend on various factors, such as the type of search, technical field, the amount of information to be searched, or the reliability of the search report.
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What types of patent searches are there?
Patent searches can take many forms, each serving a unique purpose in the research process. From novelty searches to determine if an invention disclosure is truly new, to patentability searches to assess the approval likelihood, an inventor can perform various types of searches to find out in advance whether a patent application is worth the risk of disclosing an invention.
Patent searches can also include patent landscape to gain an overview of the publication asset scope, or freedom to operate (FTO) searches to inform on potential infringement risks.
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