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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Free Patent Search – Your Own! Part 1
One of the first steps in evaluating your product idea is to conduct your own initial patent search, for free! How do you do this? Simple, go to the patent office website: http://www.uspto.gov Click on “patents” and then under “Searching … Continue reading