Get yourself an initial overview
An overview search gives you an initial rough idea of patent information relating to a specific technology or particular product or process.
What does an overview search entail?
In the first phase, our search experts provide you with an initial overview containing all relevant results relating to prior art in the respective technical area. Unlike with a novelty search, the overview search for prior art does not initially provide you with an evaluation of the results. An evaluation report can be provided at a later date, subject to a fee.
What is the objective of an overview search?
The objective here is to obtain a rough but meaningful overview of the state of the art in relation to the respective selected technologies and products, for example, as a way of gathering ideas or assessing the competition, without evaluation of relevance.
Advantages of an overview search
- This is a fast and low-cost prior art search of your field.
- The overview search does not require a precise range of countries.
- The time frame can be limited.
- Search results comprise numerous similar or identical patents and/or utility models, presented in bibliographic or full-text form without detailed assessment or evaluation of relevance.
- You will receive the results as an Excel spreadsheet with direct links to the patent documents found.
