TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hitchcock,David
TI  - Patent searching made easy: how to do patent searches online and in the library 
SN  - 9781413329698
PY  - 2022///
CY  - [Berkeley, CA]
PB  - Nolo
KW  - Patent searching
KW  - Patent literature
KW  - Law for laypersons
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Place of publication from publisher's website; Includes bibliographical references and index; Your legal companion -- Part I: The basics -- Patents and patent searching -- Understanding patent databases -- Part II: Simple and advanced searching -- Patent searching at the PTO website -- Advanced search techniques -- Patent searching at the EPO website -- Patent searching at the Google website -- Additional sources of prior art -- Part III: Resources -- EAST meets WEST -- Appendixes -- Reference collection of U.S. patents available for public use in patent and trademark resource centers -- Using CASSIS
N2  - "This book explains how to assess the novelty of an idea and do patent searches at little or no cost under the recently-adopted first-to-file rules. Patent Searching Made easy provides information on how to quickly research any new idea to see whether anyone has already patented it; decide on the best keywords to describe an invention and target a search; classify an invention based on the U.S. Patent Classification System; figure out whether an idea is new enough to qualify for a patent; verify the patent status of ideas submitted to potential developers, and how to use the latest federal and international search-related resources"--
ER  -