Patent Search Group Activity

Reminder: Use your canvas group homepage to conduct group conferences and
post reports in canvas pages
Learning Outcome:
 Conduct effective patent search through various patent databases
 Analyze patent search report
Instructions:
1. Collaborate with your group mates on what new invention idea you want to
present as a case study for patent search. It can be from submitted “Be an Inventor
activity” or present a new idea.
2. Apply what you learned in conducting patent search by completing the search
report.
Transfer to separate page: Sample format
Patent Search Report
Name of Invention
About the invention: What does it do?
What’s the end result?
What is it made of?
Intended use for the invention
Patent Searcher 1.
name’s: 2.
3.
International Patent Example:
Classification A01K 1/015
• Floor coverings, e.g. bedding-down sheets
Go to different Patent databases to conduct your searches
 Patentscope - https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/search.jsf
 Espacenet - https://worldwide.espacenet.com/
 Google Patents - https://patents.google.com/
 IPOPHIL -
http://onlineservices.ipophil.gov.ph/wopublish-search/public/patents;jsess
ionid=A0AFE01D6B66B291102F77D7BE08E3C9?0

Number of Results
Search Strings Patentscope Espacenet Google IPOPHIL
patents
EXAMPLE 233 37 852 63
(cement mortar) AND
( pulverized cow bones)
AND (pozzolanic)
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3. From search results, Select 5 closest patent documents that are highly relevant
to your new invention or idea and perform patent analysis by comparing the
features of your invention to the existing prior arts.
Closest Patent Documents or Prior Arts
Example
Document 1 (D1). CN206978386 - PET DRINKER
PROBLEM ADDRESSED BY THE INVENTION :
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
Document 2 (D2). Title
PROBLEM ADDRESSED BY THE INVENTION :
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
Document 3 (D3). Title
PROBLEM ADDRESSED BY THE INVENTION :
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
Document 4 (D4). Title
PROBLEM ADDRESSED BY THE INVENTION :
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
Document 5 (D5). Title
PROBLEM ADDRESSED BY THE INVENTION :
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:

PATENT SEARCH ANALYSIS

Features Your D1 D2 D3 D4 D5
invention

Features 1
Feature 2
Feature 3
And so on

EXAMPLE
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