Inventions: Connecting the Unconnected

 

In this blog i will be sharing few important things which can be used by innovators of our country as to how new inventions can be linked to other application areas looking at other similar patents. Suppose there is an inventor who has made an invention and want to know more about how his technology can be used in other areas. There is one way which can give any inventor a lot of pointers as to how his invention can be applied in other areas. The inventor can perform a search for a similar patent, off course there might be some differences on the aspect of novelty, but looking at the forward citation data of that patent can give many ideas to link his own invention with other application areas.

Let us understand this with an example. Suppose an inventor has made a new invention on a new design of an automobile engine. The inventor wants lot of other new ideas to file new patent applications. He can perform a quick search for similar patent having a old design for automobile engine. Now looking at the forward citation data the inventor can get many ideas to link his own invention with other applications areas.

In this way inventors can connect their inventions with other application areas seeing at how other similar patents are connected to each other. A significant idea can be generated about how a company has built its own patent portfolio. The inventors can make their own patent portfolio and either sell the bunch of patents or license them for recovering their investments.

Similar thing is also applicable in the area of technical publications also. The inventors can connect their new ideas looking at the citation data of similar tech papers and pool a lot of ideas to build new inventions.

 

Disclaimer: This Blog is written to spread awareness on Patent system of India which may help inventors to write Good quality Disclosures for their inventions.