1. Interdisciplinary Research in Law: Strategies for Database Selection: patent research

2. Read your research question Before filing for a patent, how comprehensive your preemptive research should be?

3. Clarify your question (break it into smaller concepts, if necessary) Do you need contextual information? (literature search) Can you go for the primary source (the filing or the standard)? Where do you start? What is your jurisdiction?

4. More preliminary meta-research domestic law research 1.Free of charge databases? 2. Fee-based databases? How do you choose? Who publishes them? Where can you access them? Finding US patents Google’Patent’Search’ Espacenet‘Espacenet US Patent and Trademark Office

5. Patent Research

6. Patent Research – Let’s Search for a Patent

7. Finding Standards A standard is a document that provides requirements, specifications, guidelines, or characteristics that can be used consistently to ensure that materials, products, processes, and services are fit for their purpose.’ The important thing to remember is that standards change. Make sure you pay attention to when the standard was created and if it has been updated. For research purposes, you may be interested in historical standards. Where? IEEE–Standards Association NISO–National Information Standards Organization W3C–World Wide Web Consortium

8. Questions?