File a patent, and how not to lose money and time

File a patent and how not to lose money and time:

1. File a patent. Search for United States Patent and Indian Patent Office. Before you invest money or minute of your time, use this search engine to make sure your idea hasn’t already been patented. At the same time, make sure that you also have some similar patents, like few prior arts. If you don’t find anything of that sort, then it is time to revisit your invention. You also have Patent Search Tools like PatBase, to consult a PatBase sales and service team email PatBase is a paid …

Patents search services crowdsourcing

For few years now, I had successfully done hundreds of patent prior art and patent invalidity searches. Most of these searches were with the US and Japan clients. Recently, I got to know about the 3rd party crowd sourcing platform models, those providing efficient patent search solutions. Example, Article One Partners and Patexia are some of those, providing very successful medium for the innovation companies and patents owners, enabling them to avail the patent search services at a fixed price, with the pool of efficient researchers.

Past few months, I have done half a dozen patent studies on these crowd …