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Davies Collison Cave's focus on the best legal talent and client service has seen it consistently rank as Australia's top IP practice for our patent, trade marks and litigation services.
Patent searching
Patent searches are important tools in not only determining whether your invention is patentable, but can also prove a crucial commercial intelligence tool when evaluating competitive threats and opportunities.
Our patent searching and intelligence services
Davies Collison Cave’s dedicated Patent Intelligence Group and Patent Services can help you:
Meet Susanne Hantos
Susanne leads DCC’s Patent Intelligence Group and specialises in chemical and biotechnology patent searching. She is a trained Chemist, Librarian, and patent attorney in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Susanne is also co-chair of the International Patent Searcher Certification Committee.
Susanne’s CV and details »
- identify potential competitors, partners or licensees as well as potentially unexploited markets by conducting a patent landscape or ‘state of the art search’;
- evaluate whether proposed patents are patentable by identifying relevant prior art with a ‘novelty search’;
- determine the status of patent families by conducting a ‘patent family search’;
- profile patent activities of a company or person;
- determine the strength of a patent prior to enforcement or licensing by conducting a ‘validity search’;
- identify potential infringement risks prior to entering a new market with a ‘freedom to operate search’; and
- monitor competitor filings, the development of technology in a particular field, or the progress of a particular patent application.
Our difference: an experienced, global perspective
Davies Collison Cave’s dedicated Patent Intelligence Group and Patent Services offer:
- over ten years of experience searching scientific literature and patent publications, especially in the United States, Europe, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
- technically-skilled patent attorneys who devise and conduct your searches and carefully analyse the results.
- expertise in both international patent classifications and domestic classifications in the EU, Germany, Japan and the United States.
- tailored searches based on combinations of functional components, as well as traditional searching by registry numbers, keywords and terms.
More information
If you would like to conduct preliminary searches you may wish to search the international, publicly available patent office databases. We have links to many of these on our Industry Links page.
Davies Collison Cave would be happy to assist you with any patent searching needs you may have. For further information or advice please contact us.
