Advertisement feature: Solving the searching?
Inventions come to life the same way today as they did a century ago. A product of the creative mind, they can change shape multiple times before receiving a patent stamp of approval. The same goes for virtually every product of IP including trademarks, designs and copyrights. What changed in the past 100 years is how we manage and protect these assets.
First comes the idea, next comes the invention, then comes the nagging ‘what if I cannot patent this?’ question. The truth is that ideas, no matter how great, are just the first step toward generating a patent. That is why innovators should always include a patent search in the process, long before getting their invention drafted and filed, because discovering that someone else has already registered your invention is both embarrassing and expensive.
Enter Octimine, a solution that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to conduct sophisticated patent searches. The software’s algorithms are tailored to understand patent language, allowing users to input natural language text in any format and refine the scope of the search by using specific filters.
Octimine’s interface requires almost no training and enables anyone to understand the results, including users with no patent search knowledge. For every kind of full-text search, e.g., an invention disclosure, an abstract, an idea or a scientific article, the software uncovers the most similar patent documents. Acquired by the Dennemeyer Group in October 2018, Octimine’s solutions are the perfect addition to Boolean searches.
Professional patent searches
Inventors, IP professionals, R&D engineers and scientists need to search patent data before, during and after patent filing to ensure optimal IP management. The two main reasons are to find prior art and establish freedom to operate. Searching involves discovering if the invention is new by scanning and evaluating all text in documents and non-patent literature, as well as identifying potential claim infringements from other patents.
