If you have a great idea that you want to invent, you’ll want to know that your idea is original.
You first need to find out if there are already existing patents for your idea. If you have the funds you can hire a patent attorney to do a patent search for you.
Or if you have little or no funds you can do a patent search yourself online. There is a great website called freepatentsonline.com where you can register for free and do patent searches.
You will want to do a search with as many keywords that you can think of that relate to your product idea. For example if your product idea is for a new design for an ice chest, you’ll want to do searches for “ice chest” and words that relate like “cooler”, “ice box”, etc.
You can also do a patent search at the US Patent and Trademark website. If you click Patent on the left hand side, then scroll down and click Search, you will come to a page where you can choose how you want to do your search. The Quick Search option is quick and easy.
Make sure you search for your keywords under both “Issued Patents” and “Published Applications”. There may not be an actual patent for your product idea yet, but somebody may have applied for a Provisional application on your same idea, so you’ll want to do a quick search under “Published Applications” also.
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