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In a knock-out search, patent and non-patent databases are focused to find the prior art that is identical or strikingly similar to the invention. In other words we can say it is a speedy and concentrated patentability search. The purpose of knock out search is to assist the person to identify potential conflicts that might appear while processing the person’s application. It just takes a few strong references, or the best references, to “knock out” the originality of an innovation or make the underlying concept clear. A standard patentability/novelty search takes much longer to complete than this preliminary search.
Knockout searches are designed for the person inventors and also for the industries or companies looking to save costs and time on assessing the patentability of inventions. The groups can leverage knockout searches as a short turnaround and low cost option to lessen the quantity of invention disclosures attaining to the subsequent stage through nearly 60-70%. The knockout searches focused on mainly the newness issue of the invention, and offer the person with a short and smooth manner to get right of entry to the patentability in their inventions. The search is carried out the usage of business patent databases and is limited to 3 important submitting jurisdictions, i.e., US, EP and WIPO.