Q: Hello, I am a Mechanical Eng. student in Germany and now doing a patent research for my construction project.
I am now searching for patents for (recycle) trash can or dustbin in public areas for example in train station or shopping building. Can you assist me with my research? Because I could not find anything related to my idea. Also, I want to know: trash can/dustbin is classified under which category or section of patent? I thank you for your assistance, looking forward to it. Thank you.
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I am providing a link to a slide set that I use to teach entrepreneurs how to do searches of the patent databases. http://bit.ly/Patent_Searching
I would start with Google Patents and do some really broad searching such as https://patents.google.com/?q=recycling&q=recepticle&oq=recycling+recepticle. From this you can do backward and forward chaining and explained in my slide set. You can also discern a good art class code for additional searching.
Good Luck
Kevin E Flynn
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A:
Sorry -- I had a typo. The word is receptacle not recepticle.
Kevin
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