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How do you search for patents?

You can check whether your invention has already been invented using the online search system for patents, espacenet. This database contains approximately seventy million patent documents from eighty countries in which technical inventions are described. A certain amount of skill is required to search in this database.

We will be pleased to explain how you can determine a search strategy. If you are unsure of what to do, please contact NL Patent Office for further information. We will be pleased to help you in your search through the patent literature.
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