# Patent Research

Skill · Legal and Compliance

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/patent-research

Patent research involves searching existing patents and published applications to assess the novelty of an invention, avoid infringement, or analyze competitors' intellectual property portfolios. It is performed by inventors, patent attorneys, and researchers using specialized databases like the USPTO's or Google Patents before filing new applications or making business decisions.

Related skills: [Patent Law](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/patent-law), [Intellectual Property](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/intellectual-property), [Patent](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/patent), [Patent Prosecution](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/patent-prosecution), [Competitive Intelligence](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/competitive-intelligence)

## Open roles requiring Patent Research (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.