A patent is a right of exclusive use restricting others from making, using, importing, selling, etc. granted to the owner of an invention or a process ranging from goods or services. The process of granting patent involves three tests i.e. inventive (i.e. isn’t obvious), novel (hasn’t been anticipated in any published document) and industrially applicable (possesses utility).

Now, patent search is a preliminary process of searching in a database of already granted patents. It is done to check whether the intended invention or process for which patent is applied is similar to already existing patented product or process. This is also known as a prior art search.

The patent is provided by the Indian patent advanced search system or pass. Although the database is simple and easy to operate, an expert in this field can increase accuracy & speed up the process.