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How long does a patent search take?

December 01, 2025

Posted in Video

Transcript:

00:00:00 – 00:01:05

If you or your patent attorney do what I call a cursory search, that doesn’t take very long, that can be a matter of hours or a couple of days worth of work, depending on how much is involved and how far you want to go. If you employ a third-party search firm, they’re going to spend more time and certainly uh a deeper dive into what the search involves. And that might include not just anything in the US, but foreign patent offices and other non- patent documents. It’s important to be aware

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that you don’t just have to look at patents and patent applications, but also anything that’s out there. So, obviously, search engines like Google can be very useful for that, image searches, things of that nature. But what you can find could be things that could cover let’s say a a college thesis project uh or some a magazine article or YouTube video. All those things could be prior art.

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