How can you churn out the relevant patents from the thousands of patents appearing on the keyword search string given by you?
A big question.
Probably you would refine your search string. May be you would add more keywords or try your Boolean Search String skills. Here is the catch if you do it this way you might miss out on the patents in disguise or the one which could have accomplished your patent invalidation search. By “patents in disguise” I want to point to the patents which are relevant but the patent author has tried his best to keep it hidden from you through his vocabulary. I am sure you would agree that writing patent is an art. And an artist is skilled enough to show or hide whatever he intends to.
So we used to use “Competitive Search Strategy”. There are various ways in which this strategy has been used by researchers. Some other strategies have also been discussed in this blog earlier that deals with popular competitors (easy to identify).
Next question that must be coming to your mind is “How to identify the not so popular big companies?” Don’t worry you have someone who will do this job for you. “Visiobrand – search engine visual market for brands and links to their official web-sites. Hence Visiobrand gets you well structured and organized information which your normal search engine can’t get you. For example, if you consider electronics, you would find well organized structure for Electronics companies.
