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Patent attorney conducting a prior art search for a client's invention spends 2-3 days manually searching USPTO, EPO, and non-patent literature databases — reading hundreds of abstracts, mapping claims to prior art references, and still worrying they missed something in a Chinese or Japanese patent that wasn't translated. The search costs the client $5,000-15,000 and the attorney still can't guarantee completeness
Who feels this pain
Roles
ip-attorney patent-agent patent-attorney associate Small Firm (2-20) Mid-size Firm (21-200) Large Firm (201-500) BigLaw litigation-support Large firm (201–500) Mid-size firm (21–200)
Practice areas
ip patent IP litigation
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