A State of the Art (SOA) search involves gathering information from public sources, including patents, scientific literature, and products, within a specific technology domain. Its main aim is to offer a comprehensive overview of a technology area, identifying knowledge, innovations, and patents within that field. The search can have a global or specific geographic focus, depending on the organization's goals. While SOA searches are thorough, they are more focused than landscape studies, which lack depth. SOA searches aim to answer specific questions for business, R&D, or legal teams and provide a bird's-eye view of a technology's current state.
This kind of search is preferred by Inventors who are interested in latest developments in the specific technology field of their research or would like to study the latest patents for deciding the future strategy in the area of their research.
Recognizing the Technology
We fully immerse ourselves in the field of interest during this first phase, acquiring a profound comprehension of the technology.
Searching
We look through databases, both patent and non-patent, thoroughly.
Our search tactics include:
Searching using keywords
IPC, USC, and CPC classifications are among the classes that are searched.
Searching based on inventor and assignee.
using citation search to find relevant patents.
We use databases like as Orbit (from Questel, covering around 100 jurisdictions), Derwent Innovation (covering approximately 100 jurisdictions globally), Google Patent, and Espacenet for patents.
Non-patent literature searches collect pertinent prior art from relevant databases, including ScienceDirect, PubChem, Pubmed, CiteseerX, Google, and Google Scholar, among others.
Reporting and Analysis
We use Title, Abstract, and Claims-based screening to determine which patent references are pertinent.
To help with an organized understanding of the technology landscape, we categorize and taxonomize the pertinent references.
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