IPR Workshop : Day 9 ( SDMCET, Dharwad), 09.01.2008

IPR workshop turned out to be very practical today. Mr. Yashwant, TIFAC conducted a session describing the entire process of patent searching. He explained :How different is patent search from general search? and why Keyword search is not good enough and said that free search tools for patents are not up to standard. In the following session, he took us through in a step by step manner on how to start and go on narrowing patent search process. He covered Indian, US and EP patent databases.