Patent search tools meeting
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Patent Document
- Think of patents as documents rather than as "rights", take an analytical approach.
- Country codes
- Name format is not standard across countries' patent systems, and sometimes not standard within the same country.
- Assignee has similar problem
- Dupont and IBM can have about 15 different spellings for their names (IMB, Int Biz Mach, etc).
- Additionally, DuPont has many subsidiaries so it's challenging to search for them as an entity. (m&a, etc).
- Dupont and IBM can have about 15 different spellings for their names (IMB, Int Biz Mach, etc).