期刊名称：DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology
电子版ISSN：0976-4658
出版年度：2012
卷号：32
期号：3
语种：English
出版社：DESIDOC, Ministry of Defence, India
摘要：Patent system worldwide, as known today, is about two hundred years old and existed in some format least about four hundred years ago in parts of Europe. However, over the last twenty years the volumeof patents has grown phenomenally with interdisciplinary and complex subjects and the existence of internetmakes most of the information available in some form or the other and has thus made the searchers’ questmore difficult. Thus, patent search has attained much greater significance as it is always interlinked withcommercial gains. India too has observed a quantum leap in patent applications in the last decade. Organisationsare attaching greater importance to patent filing and thus for patent searching too. Patent search, as aprofession has attained a significant position in the area of intellectual property .There has been severalattempts to simplify and make the patent search more efficient and effective. The present paper provides anoverview of the same. http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.32.3.2378
关键词：Patents searching, patent information system, online access, growth of patents in india, World Intellectual Property Organisation
