Assignment 7b: Video Clip #2 (for 3 units)

Below is a summary and personal thoughts on the video about prior art search.

This is where you can find inventions in the prior art, otherwise defined as the information available to the public that can be found in a printed publication format. These can be in a variety of places such as magazines, books, Internet, patents, published patent applications, and others.

So a prior art search is an attempt to find your invention in all the above prior art source locations as described above. We are searching for prior art in a printed publication format, which consist of the sources described and many others.

This step to Obviousness is crucial because you need to know whether your invention is obvious or not. And a way to determine that is to see what has already been filed and see if your invention has made a novel leap from what has already been created. It is very important to do the prior art search otherwise the patent office will do it themselves and if results come out to be obvious, then your patent may be up for rejection.