The emphasis is on patent searching, but depending on technical field, you might also want to search other content. We will consider when and how to include other literature in your state of the art review. A State of the Art search needs to be broader than a typical patentability search. This course will explain how to balance recall and precision, and the importance of relevance to get good results. How to use of patent classifications, patent citations and name searching to build a collection for an initial state of the art review.
Of course the state of the art changes continually! To complete the course you will learn about keeping up to date with state of the art by setting up technology patent monitoring processes.
