Patent Invalidation Search – Audio Video Search

 

Knocking out a patent is not at all an easy task. What you require is a very focused and constantly new ways to look for buried patents that cannot be reached using conventional techniques.

All around the world people are using keyboards to search for prior-art. Why can’t we can talk to search for relevant results. Now it looks too much

Yes we can!!!..

Audio Search.

Well we have already discussed about searching in YouTube and other Video search engines. Yes, these are very good techniques but they are again limited by keyword based search.

However, there are still ways you can catch what people are saying in these videos.

1) www.blinkx.com

Blinkx technology listens to the speech track of a given video, identifying and extracting speech tags that represent key words and phrases spoken within the video. These tags complement text metadata tags, improving the description of the video and lighting up as the corresponding words are spoken in the video. The speech tags can be used to navigate – both within the video, allowing users to jump directly to the point in a video that a word is spoken, and also from the video, as a starting point to find other relevant videos.

2) Snipp.TV

Snipp.TV has designed a user interface that addresses the unique needs of multimedia search:
1) Provides for quick results-sorting based on Spoken Tags* 
2) Enables users to see "snippets" of multimedia content that includes the spoken words they were looking for
3) Provides a summarized textual representation of key words in the audio track and textual data about the file.

3) Google Audio Indexing

Google has also come up with a similar concept, but its in experimental stage and the search is only limited to videos related to Politics. I hope in future it could act as one of the biggest Audio/Video search engine.

Do remember in Patent Invalidation the idea is to identify Bang-on results!!! Traditional strategies are not going to help.

So go and get creative.. and crack every invalidation that you get.

Patent Invalidation Search – Non Patent Literature Search Tool – Viewzi

Ask any researcher to provide you with non-patent literature instead of patent literature and he will

Its difficult to hunt for non-patent literature instead of patent literature and this is because of many reasons.

• Non-patent world is not yet structured as patent world
• Non-availability of good search interfaces
• Non-availability of single interface for search
• Difficult to find publication (date) information of non-patent publications
• and many others…

We have talked about one non-patent search strategy which uses Google Timeline.

Another good way of analyzing non-patent is through Viewzi. Viewzi provides a preview of the dates of the web pages, which helps a lot in quickly browsing through the results.

For example, if you are searching for something related to Multi-touch screen technology, you would get results something like this:

http://www.viewzi.com/search/cronotron/multi-touch%20screen

Its easy to navigate and provides more results per page for review. A very good source for non-patent search in patent invalidation search. This can also be very useful in patentability or novelty searches.

Moreover, if Viewzi is used in landscape analysis it can provide useful information about the market and companies/authors that are active in the domain.

A very useful tool in all kind of analysis related to patents.

Patent Invalidation Search – Addiction to Web

 

There are a lot of people who are involved in Web based tools for patent searching. I guess its not actually addiction to web but people become addicted to one kind of interface.

Its too difficult to separate one person from one database to another. So why not have a system which is quick. easy and simple and eliminate the need of a browser. You are free to change the Interface according to your own need.

Then I came across a new free tool from IPEXL ‘Excel Client’. This is a desktop based tool which is capable of performing search on various databases.

The best part that I liked about it was its reach to Taiwan and China.

Moreover, since the results are displayed in excel you can easily modify its interface to keep Title, Abstract and Claims together for speedy analysis. OR filter the results with the help of IPC etc.

I believe this should be a boon for the people who use USPTO. A very good tool for Patentability Search, Novelty search, Freedom-to-Operate searches and not to forget patent invalidation searches.

Moreover, people can use it to perform a quick landscape analysis as well. Since all the patents are in Excel one can use the inbuilt charting capabilities of Excel to draw quick charts.

You can download the tool here