Patent research is a crucial technique used by businesses all over the world. Patent searching is used as a crucial tool to provide strategic insights when a company maps out its road map in order to maintain an edge.

A patent allows the owner to prevent others from creating, using, importing, or selling the invention without their consent. Before granting such a right, it is carefully examined to see if the method or product is innovative (i.e., not obvious), novel (not anticipated in any published document), and commercially applicable (possesses utility). Typically, a patent search involves data mining, study, and search.