In patent law, a search report is a report established by a patent office, which mentions documents which may be taken into consideration in deciding whether the invention to which a patent application relates is patentable. The documents mentioned in the search report usually form part of the prior art.
In copyright law, a search report is a documented statement by the Copyright Office or by an independent researcher reporting the registered documents at the Copyright Office for a particular work that has been (or can be) copyrighted. The contents of these documents can be used to determine a work's status of copyright protection (or lack of it).
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