PATENT SEARCH METHODOLOGY IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING COMPETITIVE INVENTIONS

Abstract

The article examines the patent search technique in the process of creating competitive inventions. Regulatory documents regulating patent law, the main definitions of patent science, which are designed to familiarize beginners and student youth engaged in scientific work related to innovative inventive activity, are given.The article also highlights the issue of the inventor’s inventive activity, examines the stages of search activity in the process of creating competitive inventions. The principles of classification of inventions in accordance with the International Patent Classification of Inventions by means of the information and library system Web IRBIS are considered.Thus, inventions are classified according to thematic headings by class, which makes it possible to organize descriptions of inventions and distribute them according to technical solutions.The article also provides a method of searching for patent information of different countries by means of information and search systems and the Ukrainian information and search system SIS (special information system) UKRNOIVI (Ukrainian national office of intellectual property of innovations), which allows inventors to monitor the status of paperwork for their applications for inventions. Patent search and patent research based on modern information and search systems for patents by means of the Internet allows to prevent borrowing and plagiarism in compliance with the law “On the Protection of Rights to Inventions and Utility Models”.The described method of patent search during the creation of inventions gives the inventor a significant saving of working time spent on patent search, allows the use of modern means of information and communication technologies in the process of creating competitive inventions. Keywords: patent search; patent purity; patent research; information search system; national patent databases; industrial property; patents; inventions; utility models.