{"id":422,"date":"2017-07-26T12:20:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T04:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myagric.upm.edu.my\/infohub\/?page_id=422"},"modified":"2023-07-11T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T01:54:19","slug":"patent-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/infohub.upm.edu.my\/index.php\/patent-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What is Prior Art?<\/strong><br \/>Prior art refers to scientific and technical information that exists before the effective date of a given patent application<\/p>\n<p>Prior art may include:<br \/>\u25fc previous patents<br \/>\u25fc trade journal articles<br \/>\u25fc publications (including data books and catalogs)<br \/>\u25fc public discussions (conference and seminar)<br \/>\u25fc trade shows<br \/>\u25fc brochures<br \/>\u25fc products, devices &amp; equipments<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Search for Prior Art?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prior art search will help you to:<br \/>\u25fc understand your competition<br \/>\u25fc avoid patent infringement<br \/>\u25fc write your patent application<br \/>\u25fc learn more about your field of invention<br \/>\u25fc Save the cost of patenting process<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong><br \/>The results of a good patent search should reveal any identical, similar, or partially similar inventions to the one you might patent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Search for Prior Art?<\/strong><br \/>An on-line prior art search can be done by a keyword search<\/p>\n<p><em>Keyword search<\/em><br \/>\u25fc list the keywords that you would use to describe the invention<br \/>\u25fc think of all possible aspects of the invention and choose keyword that describe each aspect<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong><br \/>The quality of a keyword search will depend on the appropriateness of keywords selected<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intellectual Property Division<br \/>Putra Science Park<br \/>Universiti Putra Malaysia<br \/>Tel: 03-9769 1636 <br \/>E-mel : bhi_sp@upm.edu.my<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upmip.upm.edu.my\/\">Universiti Putra Malaysia&#8217;s Intellectual Property<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Prior Art?Prior art refers to scientific and technical information that exists before the effective date of a given patent application Prior art may include:\u25fc previous patents\u25fc trade journal articles\u25fc publications (including data books and catalogs)\u25fc public discussions (conference and seminar)\u25fc trade shows\u25fc brochures\u25fc products, devices &amp; equipments Why Search for Prior Art? Prior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infohub.upm.edu.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infohub.upm.edu.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infohub.upm.edu.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infohub.upm.edu.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infohub.upm.edu.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":122,"href":"http:\/\/infohub.upm.edu.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"http:\/\/infohub.upm.edu.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/422\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infohub.upm.edu.my\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}