Today’s scenario, all the mobile subscribers need a faster speed of data along with more reliable and trusted service. This latest technology promises to deliver with high efficiency and fastest speed. With this revolutionary technology, the users will enjoy the high speed for high quality. The user will be able to download the high definition files in a few seconds rather than spending a few minutes downloading the same file in 4G LTE.

This fifth-generation wireless technology is presently creating much exhilaration in the telecommunications industry and is the next successful and most demanding advanced technology in wireless data communications. Apart from other communications, the new 5G technology is not the updated version of 1G to 2G, 3G, 4G mobile communications. It is a totally different technology. Basically, 5G provides higher bandwidth and high data rates with remarkably less delays during transmission of signals.

The first step in our patent search involves brainstorming. For our purposes, we will start with the idea that you have invented a new kind of computer mouse. Write down all the words you can think of that describe your invention. It is important to think broadly and creatively. To help, keep the following questions in mind:

• What does the invention do?
• What is the end result?
• How does it work?
• What is it made of?
• What is it used for?
• What problem(s) does it solve?

What is a Prior Art?
Prior art search refers to the process of finding relevant literature (called as a prior art) that is available in public domain before a particular date. While conducting a search the main focus of the researcher is to locate the closest possible prior art related to a particular invention or idea.

Strategies for Patent Search
A standard patent search on any of the above mentioned databases includes the following key steps :

• Understanding the claims/novelty of the invention
• Webbing of the Subject Patent (subject patent refers to the patent to be invalidated)

Patent Webbing refers to the analysis of the backward citations and forward citation of the subject patent. This is done by taking into account the forward citations of the backward citations and backward citations of the forward citations.

Do you have an amazing idea? Or experimented with a neat little prototype around an innovative concept. Are you excited about its release?

Hold your horses! You are first required to preserve your Intellectual Property (IP).

It takes years of hard work and dedication to develop software. However, once its features are well-defined, it becomes easier for others to replicate the software using a separate language or a platform. Software copyright can only protect the replication of the software code. However, if an identical software code is independently developed, the copyright does not provide any protection for the same. Also, it does not safeguard the delicacy of the idea, core process, or the functional aspects of the software.

Toys are an important part of any child’s life and with the advent of technology like cloud computing, machine learning, face detection etc. the toy industry  has reached an unprecedented position in terms of how toys interact with an individual. The “Smart toys” as we define them are interactive, intelligent, and help a child in becoming smarter. 

A Patent Landscape analysis in the Smart toys industry shows various advancements in the toys IP sector.

A view of the overall R&D locations shows with reference to FIG.1, that Chinese Geography dominates the IP market with the majority of the worldwide patent filings in the Smart toys domain.

To Sum up, the kind of toys which were imagined 10 or 20 years ago are now becoming a reality and a lot of innovative ideas are used by the companies by fusing new technologies in the once simple and mute toys. These toys give children a sense of reality, dearness and enhance their use of electronic gadgets, natural physical responses and also decision making capability.

Autonomous cars are a new Technological leap in the field of transportation. Imagine millions of cars, heavy-duty vehicles, ships, etc. being driven without drivers which will save a lot of human labor. Also, if such technology makes commuting safe and makes you reach your destination in time with 100% safety, it will save many innocent lives which are lost every year due to human carelessness or negligence while driving. 

This technology is considered to be the NEXT BIG THING in the automobile sector. By combining the use of artificial intelligence and a bunch of sensors we will soon see cars roaming around with the driver seat being empty.

As with each new technology comes a new IP portfolio which makes the innovators dominate the market in the years to come; the top automobile tycoons to maximize their IP portfolio ranking and value in the domain of the self-driving car have already entered into a road rage by filing patent applications in various patent offices all over the world.

From a top mobile manufacturing giant to a bankrupt company, the journey of Nokia’s success to failure could be summarized just like this.

A few years back, Nokia was a big name in the smartphone industry. The smartphone industry changed very fast and they missed out on embracing the new technology, and thus they lost and couldn’t survive.

The last emotional speech of the Nokia CEO abridged the turbulence in today’s marketplace where the chances of failure are much more if you do not innovate and move along with the industry.

How are they expected to hit the market?

The smartphone market has become sluggish due to lack of innovation, but, do you think foldable phones will serve the purpose. These phones can bring a revolution in the smartphone market as they are going to hit smartphone and tablet market both at the same time. People may like to have a phone that can give them an experience of a tablet.

• Samsung
• LG and more

What is DNA-based storage?
Forget about the age old standard storage devices like Tape, or Magnetic Media or Semiconductor storage. They’re just spinning disks that make a lot of noise. These storage devices have a limited life span. DNA is so flexible that it can be used to create everything from an amoeba to a human, a dinosaur to a dandelion, and so small that the strands required to create all these life forms can be fitted into a single cell, a few micrometers large. DNA lasts for centuries if kept cold and dry. It could, in theory, pack billions of gigabytes of data into the volume of a sugar crystal.

Patent research is a tough business. It not only requires high technical and engineering expertise but also creativity and perseverance while executing a patent search. Each prior art search literally requires screening through thousands of relevant documents to locate a relevant prior art, all of which would look similar to a normal eye.

In my experience, as a patent analyst, I would like to share mistakes that a researcher should be aware of:

1. Deducing “What to find” (Misinterpretation of Subject Matter/Novelty) 
2. Not Checking Videos/Blogs/E-commerce websites (Under-rating Non-patent literature)
3. Overcoming Machine Translations (No strategy to tap machine-translated Foreign art.

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These are the five areas where, if a patent analyst hones his skills, he could do his job more efficiently, quickly, and receive more positive client feedback.

Happy Patent Searching.