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 – Spelling Mistakes

Can anyone search this blog with its name (“My Search Strategies“)

No?

How can you reach here if you want to? forget about the other keywords that might bring you to this place

Any idea why?

Spelling mistakes!!

This is the major reason why we and the examiners miss out lots of relevant prior art.

While choosing the name of the blog I mistyped as I was in a hurry and even after wordpress confirming the name from me 3 times I missed it (happens). Similarly, there are various patents that include such misspelled words that get missed out even after multiple quality checks.

Now next time when you search keep all possible spelling variations in mind and include all possible word variations in your (keystrings or keystrngs or keystings or kystrings).

I cracked on invalidation using this strategy. If I would have not used it, I would have never been able to identify that hidden patent!!!

“Invalidation is an art not a science”

Invalidation Search – Additional Keywords

How to take the help of examiner for finding out the additional keywords (I call them lateral keywords)

Please note here I’m not talking about File Histories or ISRs to look at the keystrings used by the Examiner. The concept is to utilize the backward citations of the patent and identify the citations that are not from the same domain but still serving the same purpose. Extract the keywords from these citations and mix them with your normal keywords to obtain relevant results from different domain.

For example, there was a patent related to Location Based Service in Mobiles. For those who are not aware about LBSs, these services provide a way to identify your location (through mobile) and tell you the right path you should walk or move to reach to your destination. Something simliar to GPS. There are various patents that are build on such kind of concept, amongst which one was mine. My patent talked about calling a fixed number (XXXX), provided by a company, that end up to the customer care that is nearest to the user.

Nice concept.

I went through the backward citation and found a patent related to emergency help. The patent was not similar but the idea strike me through. I started looking for patents that are related to emergency location based service. Thats it!!..After some analysis I got the patent that I was looking for…. The patent was related to a Police Van, where a fixed number is dialed and the call is automatically routed to the nearest Police Van in the users area.

Good.

Patent Invalidated.

Invalidation Search – More Keywords

Invalidation, Invalidation and Invalidation…

I am sorry for not being on roll for sometime… you know when you receive an invalidation you cannot think of anything else other than invalidating that patent with a prior art…

So I’m back again with lots of new strategies.

I think, it’s a big limitation that the scope of the invalidation search is limited by the words that the searcher can think of…

However, the art of search says that you have to find a literature that has not necessarily been described in the same words that you are using.

So the question arises, how to come up with new words?

Google Sets!!

Though it is still in labs but it is very useful.

So now you have more related keywords!!

Google Sets identifies new keywords from 1000s of WebPages available on Internet. Now the good point of this strategy is that you get to know about lots of related words that are being used and written by other people around the world.