Series Editor’s Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Figures and Tables XII
4. Series Editor’s Foreword XV
5. Preface XVIII
6. 1. Principles of patenting 3
7. 2. The European Patent system 30
8. 3. The United States patent system 43
9. 4. The Japanese patent system 59
10. 5. Major national and regional patent systems 71
11. 6. Patent guides and libraries 115
12. 7. National and international patent information sources 121
13. 8. Common search types (I) – Alerting searches 164
14. 9. Common search types (II) – Patentability and freedom-to-operate searches 169
15. 10. Common search types (III) - Portfolio and legal status searches 177
16. 11. Commercial intelligence 190
17. 12. Specialist techniques 194
18. 13. Future developments 203
19. Backmatter 206