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Patent search helps you understand whether your invention is patentable and that’s important because you want to make an informed decision about whether you should pursue a patent for your invention and there are many ways to do that. The two primary ways can be searching the USPTO website which has been recently approved and you can use Google patents which is also an easytouse website that allows you to search international patents and pending applications. So you can see what people have filed and to give you some idea of
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what’s out there. So it’s important to note though that in many cases patent applications are not available for 18 months until they’re published. So there is a bit of a blackout window if you will when you can’t see what’s filed. So it’s a system that we all have to live with but in the US that’s the way the situation is. But it can still give you an idea of what people are working on. And then you can decide if you need to improve your invention or move in a different direction because those are
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some things you’ll have to overcome if you choose to file.
