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IP Australia Best Practice Searching

Learn why adopting international "Best Practice" in searching is crucial for delivering competitive intellectual property products and services. Discover key changes impacting report quality, claim construction hierarchy, and search strategies. Stay updated with transition arrangements and essential patent office procedures.

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IP Australia Best Practice Searching

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  1. IP Australia Best Practice Searching

  2. Why Best Practice? • Major offices have and are increasingly producing reports that are viewed by customers as being international “Best Practice”. • WIPO is encouraging the ISR/ISO to being a definitive product. • We need to be performing international “Best Practice” to continue delivering competitive products and services.

  3. RIP Old Practices • Broad Brushing • Only searching for Novelty • Brief or non-referenced comments on cited documents

  4. Types of changes • Behind the scenes • Changes impacting on the reports • Changes seen in the report

  5. Behind the scenes • Three Person Team – Search Strategy • Quality assurance process

  6. Changes impacting on the report • Claim construction hierarchy • Special meaning • Ordinary meaning • Everyday meaning • Inherency in citations • Inventive step searching

  7. Changes impacting on the report • Searching Broad Claims • Four Groups • (i) Many claims in the one application • (ii) Many possibilities in the one claim • (iii) Desideratum claims • (iv) Parametric claims

  8. Changes seen in the report • Detail of reporting • Reasoning presented for lack of Novelty is separate from lack of Inventive Step reasoning.

  9. Changes seen in the report • References to relevant part of citation. • Inventive step search results • Improved reasoning for observations taken under Articles 5 (clarity) & 6 (support).

  10. Details of changes and examples are…. • Located in the Patent Office Manual of Practice and Procedure –amendments to Vol. 1 dated 1 October 2008.

  11. Transition arrangements • An IPEO/IPRPII will be consistent with the previous ISO or IPEO. • Elements of Best Practice may appear in an IPEO/IPRPII, but it should be consistent with previous reports.

  12. Thank you Contact Details Name : Alistair Bestow Position : Supervising Examiner Section B3 (Pharmaceuticals) Phone 6283 2450

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