Patent search and analysis tactics

This programme teaches participants to design a patent-search strategy around a defined decision question rather than relying on a few keywords.

Participants expand queries, review patent families and legal status, and organize findings for filing, R&D, technology transfer, or commercialization decisions.

Who this is for

• Inventors and R&D teams

• IP, legal, and technology-intelligence specialists

• Product-development and technology-transfer teams

Core content

• Defining search objectives, scope, and relevance criteria

• Combining keywords, classifications, applicants, inventors, and citations

• Reading patent families, timelines, and legal-status signals

• Building a document matrix and converting results into decision insights

• Prepare a search plan for a specific decision question

• Build and document reproducible search queries

• Classify documents by relevance and intended use

• Summarize implications for R&D or protection strategy