A New Approach to Patent Searching

A New Approach to Patent Searching (metrocorpcounsel.com)

A new tool on Westlaw was built to address a key concern with patent information. Claims Locator is a patent search tool with its eye on the whole claim. With Claims Locator, you aren't handcuffed to your search terms. In the appropriate text box, you can type a patent or patent application number or paste a chunk of text from your own patent or application. Claims Locator then retrieves a preliminary result and integrates additional material such as patent and abstract classification numbers into your search. You retrieve highly relevant documents, which may be related to your own patent or application on many levels. Your result list, which may contain up to 100 documents, is ranked by relevance.