Structure and Parts of Patent Search and Analysis Report (PSAR)

Patent Search and Analysis Report (PSAR) is majorly divided into three parts as:

1. Patent Search Technique Used
2. Basic Data of Patented Invention/Bibliographic Data
3. Technical Part of Patented Invention

All these three part includes multiple of associated and related questions.


The list of questions under each part of PSAR report are as below:

Part 1: Patent Search Technique Used

1. Patent search database used
2. Keywords used for search
3. Search string used
4. Number of results/hits getting 

Part 2: Basic Data of Patented Invention/Bibliographic Data

1. Category/ Field of Invention
2. Invention is related to (Class/Area of Invention)
3. IPC class of the studied patent
4. Title of Invention/Patent
5. Patent No.
6. Application Number
7. Web link of the studied patent
8. Date of Filing/Application
9. Priority Date
10. Publication/Journal Number
11. Publication Date
12. First Filled Country
13. Also Published as (Countries where Filled & Application No./ Patent No.)
14. Name of Inventor/s with Address/City/Country of Inventor
15. Name of Applicant/Assignee with Address/City/Country of Applicant/Assignee
16. Category for Applicant of Patent

Part 3: Technical Part of Patented Invention

1. Limitation of Prior Technology/Art
2. Specific Problem Solved/Objective of Invention
3. Brief about Invention
4. Key learning points
5. Summary of Invention
6. Number of claims
7. Patent Status
8. How much this invention is related with your project?
9. Do you have any idea to do anything around the said invention to improve it?