The Value Of Prior Art Searching: Don’t Screw Up (Part 3)

In part 1 (link here) of this series of short articles on the value of “prior art” searching, I explained how I came up with an idea of a telescopic hex key, but knocked it out through some ‘quick-and-dirty’ prior art searching. In part 2 (link here), I explained how I used the setback of knocking out my initial idea as a springboard to think around the idea and come up with something, potentially, more useful – before knocking that idea out too. At this juncture, I realised that a universal tool would potentially need to work with hugerange of […]