In patent law, a search report is a report established by a patent office, which mentions documents which may be taken into consideration in deciding whether the invention to which a patent application relates is patentable. The documents mentioned in the search report usually form part of the prior art.
In copyright law, a search report is a documented statement by the Copyright Office or by an independent researcher reporting the registered documents at the Copyright Office for a particular work that has been (or can be) copyrighted. The contents of these documents can be used to determine a work's status of copyright protection (or lack of it).
Video Search report
Patent law
Categories of documents
Letters are often included in search reports established for patent applications to indicate the relevance of the documents identified by the examiner. For instance, the European Patent Office (EPO) uses the following letters in search reports or in the European Patent Register:
Combinations of different categories are possible. For instance, a document classified as "D, A", i.e. in categories "D" and "A", would be a document cited in the application and regarded as representing the technological background of the invention.
Maps Search report
See also
- Office action
- Grant procedure before the European Patent Office
References
External links
- Guidelines for Examination in the EPO, section b-x : "Search report"
- Patent Factsheet: Search Report at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO)
- 1844.01 Preparing the International Search Report (Form PCT/ISA/210) R-6 - 1800 Patent Cooperation Treaty at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (with example of international search report)
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