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The challenges of patent research, and why it matters
1. Your search results are incomplete
2. You're using a patent’s original title to determine if it's relevant
3. You can’t see a patent’s full history
4. The patent’s owner isn’t who you think
5. A patent appears to be active, but is no longer in force
6. You’re spending hours determining patents' novelty
7. You spend too much time sorting out irrelevant results
8. You're using extended patent families
9. Your analysis of a company's patent portfolio is incomplete
10. You can’t predict if an application will grant
Better decisions start with better insights