The Value Of Prior Art Searching: Don’t Screw Up (Part 4)

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 basic 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. In part 3 (link here), I described how I took a bit of a U-turn […]