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How to brainstorm keywords for a patent search?
A patent search is a review of the prior art to determine the likelihood that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) will grant a patent to an invention. The patent search goes by many different names such as patentability search, novelty search or just plain patent search. The United States Patent and Trademark Office publishes a “how-to” instruction on conducting an online patent search at the USPTO website. The first step in conducting the search is to brain storm a list of potential keywords related to the invention. However, the online patent searching capabilities on the USPTO website
