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How to be smart in patent search work

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I viddied right at once what to do says Alex in the 1962 book and 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange. Viddied is Alex's lingo for viewed, saw or realised. I had Alex's sensation this evening as I viddied a superb slide presentation titled Web 2.0 goes social credited to Jia Lynn Yang of Fortune magazine. At once I viddied how it provides insights on conducting smart patent search work. This is a very real issue, including for inventors of software patents and business method patents. Earlier today I had a phone conversation with an inventor client about how he might go about commissioning a patent search. His invention will be initially rendered in software and later as a hardware product. As an analogy, image if Apple first launched with iTunes, and followed up with the iPod and iTunes pre-loaded Apple computers. Advising an inexperienced client about IP search work takes time. The conversation turned to how to gain from patent protection and avoid patent threats.

Full post as published by Lightbulb IP blog on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).