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.

Invalidation Search – What’s Not Included

Everybody want to know the answers to such questions:

Where to search?
What to search?
How to search?

But nobody think about what are the things that are not searchable or the things that would be missing in your search. Here are few that are listed by Greg on his website.

What’s Not Included

Search engines include millions of pages in their databases, but none of them come close to indexing the entire Web, much less the entire Internet. Here is a list of some of what is missing:

The content in sites requiring a log in
CGI output such as data requested by a form
Intranets; pages not linked from anywhere else
Commercial resources with domain limitations
Sites that use a robots.txt file to keep files and/or directories off limits
Non-Web resources

Thats why I always say that even if you have not found anything in your search, it doesn’t mean that the patent cannot be invalidated. There are still lots of things that are/maybe present which are not seachable.

The same things applied for patentability search.

Patentability Search – Basic Utility Inventions

Please add this new source for your patentability searches.

www.halfbakery.com

This site includes lots of interesting inventions.

Sometimes we get very basic utility inventions (glowing shoe laces, bow with LED etc…) for patentability searches.. such inventions appears pretty obvious but it is difficult to find their description in patent and non-patent reference. I guess HalfBakery would be very useful in such cases.

Please click on the ’search’ option on the left menu OR directly go to http://www.halfbakery.com/search.html

This site doesn’t provides functionality of Boolean operators so complicated queries cannot be executed.

People those who use RSS readers (such as Google Reader) for reading blogs can subscribe to RSS of this site and search for inventions inside the reader itself.

Let me know if anybody is facing any difficulty in searching.

Happy hunting!!