Whether you are a researcher, an entrepreneur or a corporate innovation leader, it would be crucial to find out what kind of technological solutions exist already to get R&D (Research and Development) insights, adapt an existing solution for your use, challenge the validity of a patent, or gather evidence of patentability. Sometimes, much time and money may be spent trying to invent or innovate on something only to realize too late that the same had been done by somebody already.
So, how do you find out what kind of technological solutions already exist? Today, in the age of the Internet, it is not difficult. You just need to know where to search and how to search. I got to learn about this in my Ph.D course and later at a training course I attended at the Swedish Patent Office in Stockholm in 2018. Broadly, you can search for technological inventions and innovations in two categories of search databases: patent databases, and non-patent literature databases. This article is…
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