Filing patent applications

How do I file a patent application? Can IFI CLAIMS help me? Expand: How do I file a patent application? Can IFI CLAIMS help me?

How do I know if my invention is “novel”? Expand: How do I know if my invention is “novel”?

Searching for patents

How do I search patents? Expand: How do I search patents?

Can I search for patents on your website? Expand: Can I search for patents on your website?

Patent databases

How is an integrated patent database different from a patent search system? Expand: How is an integrated patent database different from a patent search system?

CLAIMS Direct data sources

Where do you get patent data for your database? Expand: Where do you get patent data for your database?

Can you remove or change my patent application or grant from CLAIMS Direct? Expand: Can you remove or change my patent application or grant from CLAIMS Direct?

I have filed a patent, but I don’t want the public to know about it. How do I prevent the public from seeing it? Expand: I have filed a patent, but I don’t want the public to know about it. How do I prevent the public from seeing it?

Using CLAIMS Direct

How do I use CLAIMS Direct? Expand: How do I use CLAIMS Direct?

Is CLAIMS Direct software? Expand: Is CLAIMS Direct software?

What does the CLAIMS Direct user interface look like? Expand: What does the CLAIMS Direct user interface look like?