Why technology now means ‘Knock-Out’ searches can outshine traditional patent searches
The availability of new tools has changed the nature of patent research.
Whether protecting an invention or avoiding infringement, innovators require a quick, cost-effective way to search patents. Lacking IP expertise, innovators often hire an attorney, who may in turn employ outside search experts to conduct a patent search. This process often takes weeks and becomes cost prohibitive.
Outsourced searches are usually executed by creating several compound search strategies across one or more platforms, using a variety of key words, synonyms and Boolean operators to limit the number of patents that need to be reviewed. This yields a series of disparate results that then need to be combined and analyzed. The resulting output – a patent search report - is a static artifact, representing only a snapshot in time.
As an alternative to this traditional process, what if you could…
· Seamlessly identify all patents similar to your invention features and with the click of a button learn exactly how each patent differs from your invention?
· Logically group patents to more easily sort or divide work?
· Interrogate a group of 50 patents simultaneously with natural language to determine which ones fit a specific condition?
How much time would these capabilities save?
Leveraging an AI-based semantic search over traditional methods and tools makes all of this possible.
Do traditional methods and tools not work anymore? The truth is that they now take longer and cost more to yield the same basic result with greater potential for blind spots. In the past, the role of technology was to make it easy to narrow the field of patents that need to be investigated using generic filters and other means. Unfortunately, this can leave gaps in the result set. The new way virtually guarantees that all the most relevant patents are in the result set with the first query by searching on the semantic meaning of claims. Better yet, it does not rely on an outside expert to pick the right synonyms. The new way also provides tools that enable experts to arrive at the right decisions more quickly: new AI technology is best at enabling, not replacing, a good IP attorney.
While the promise of a quick “knock-out” style search that dramatically reduces time, cost, and risk over traditional methods without compromising accuracy may feel like magic, it isn’t. Technology has simply shifted to enable innovators and the attorneys that support them to make better decisions faster by giving them higher confidence in the analysis
To learn more about how AI enabled semantic searching can outperform traditional methods, click here or contact us directly at sales@fluidityiq.com to experience the benefits for yourself.