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Invention Development Advice -
IP Research
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 In order to protect your idea, a thorough patent research will need to be done. You have a couple of options 1.   You can have a Patent Attorney do the search for you at $'00s per hour 2   You can do a patent search yourself, printing out screen shots of any similar ideas to your invention and take a folder full of these to your patent attorney, saving hours of their time and hundreds of your dollars. If you are leaning towards option 2, here are a few hints to make your research time more productive. - search a range of similar terms. a chair may be described by another inventor as a prosterior support unit. A balloon, may be describeds as latex inflation device.
- Take screen prints of any similar inventions for your patent atourney to check
- Check out the inventions listedby your search site as being similar and take screen shots of all of these as well.
- Keep all your print outs in a folder to give to your patent attorney.
Below is a list of useful sites for patent searches, but in Australia and overseas. http://www.ipo.gov.uk/
http://www.vagn.dk/patent/patentsearch.html
http://www.getbestinfo.com/index.php?to_do=show_question&number=113
http://www.espacenet.com/access/index.en.htm
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_04/14cfrv5_04.html
http://apa.hpa.com.au:8080/ipapa/qsearch?
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/
http://www.bl.uk/collections/patents/polinks.html
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