Griffith Hack's team of specialist librarians and patent and trade mark searchers work closely with our professional staff to ensure clearance searches and other information requests are carried out and reported promptly and cost-effectively.

Our in-house patent searchers are skilled at searching Australian and international patent databases and can execute various types of searches, including infringement searches, novelty searches and watches. Griffith Hack has access to all major international subscription databases. Griffith Hack can also call upon our network of foreign associates to carry out detailed searches in all foreign markets.

Griffith Hack has invested heavily in this area in recent years and has developed sophisticated search systems to manage search information, including proprietary patent reporting software driven by technically highly qualified professionals which tailors patent database reports into user-friendly patent landscape reports.

Our specialist searchers work with our patent attorneys as a team to respond to client needs. For example, we can deliver on a CD-ROM a “mini library” with a large number of searchable abstracts based on search parameters such as keywords and international classes with links to the full text of available English language specifications related to those abstracts. Our experience is that this assists enhanced inventor input to a dialogue with the relevant patent attorney.

Similarly, focused reports can be derived for trade mark matters including commissioning availability reports across a wide range of jurisdictions.

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