Reasons to Perform a State-of-the-Art Search
State-of-the-art search results are invaluable in many situations. For example, for a client who is contemplating commercial entry into a competitive field of art, state-of-the-art search results can provide concrete factors regarding the advisability going forward. Also, with respect to a client who is already commercially active in a particular field of art, state-of-the-art search results can lay out the particular path to be followed around the current art.
Thorough state-of-the-art search results can provide significant time and resource savings. Knowing what work has previously been done, the technical problems have been encountered and attempted technical solutions, active competitiors, and the chronological development of their work, can prevent wasteful excursions into blind alleys and unnecessary expenditures of capital.
Scope of a State-of-the-Art Search
The scope of a state-of-the-art search varies by circumstance. A sound state-of-the-art search should begin at the beginning, and need not be limited to a particular time period. Although the state-of-the-art search is considered to be the broadest of the patent searches, it must also be narrowly circumscribed to be useful. The scope of the state-of-the-art search must be sufficiently broad to give a complete picture of what is out there and at the same time narrow enough to completely encompass the field of interest. Accordingly, a search strategy must generate a search that includes all relevant events in a particular field of art, e.g., methods of making a very specific composition or one specific use of a more general composition.
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