Abstract
My search strategies are messy; what does this mean? Is it a sign of intelligent quick and dirty searching? I sure hope so, but is it? That patent searching is an art after all? Could be, but it's probably only an art when conducted by the unconsciously competent ones among us and that brings me to the question: am I unconsciously incompetent or unconsciously competent?I am going to investigate this by taking a look at what my drivers are when I conduct searches: these drivers are the requirements of the client and my personal objectives which combined translate into a set of general objectives that I seem to use for most of my searches (primarily novelty and validity searches). These general objectives in turn determine how I tackle searching in practice. It turns out that I basically break every search rule there is.
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