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This chapter introduces patent search in a way that should be accessible and useful to both researchers in information retrieval and other areas of computer science and professionals seeking to broaden their knowledge of patent search. It gives an overview of the process of patent search, including the different forms of patent search. It goes on to describe the differences among different domains of patent search (engineering, chemicals, gene sequences and so on) and the tools currently used by searchers in each domain. It concludes with an overview of open issues.
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Alberts, D. et al. (2017). Introduction to Patent Searching. In: Lupu, M., Mayer, K., Kando, N., Trippe, A. (eds) Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53817-3_1
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