1 October 2011Jurisdiction reportsRon Kaminecki

Citations as indicators of prior art

If a patent is found in a prior art search, why not look at the backward citations, those found on the cover of this patent, to see if any could affect the patentability of the invention that is the focus of the search? In doing this, a searcher is using leverage to extract the benefit of the prior art patent’s searchers to at least suggest some other prior art that may not have been found otherwise.

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