Search Patents for a Landscape

Role in the suite

Act as Stage 1/4 of create-patent-landscape-overview-ip. Translate the confirmed decision question into auditable search branches, validate their boundary, and hand traceable artifacts to analyze-patent-search-results-ip.

This stage owns search quality. It does not produce landscape statistics, competitor profiles, patent-value conclusions, a final taxonomy, or the final report.

Read references/query-and-taxonomy-methodology.md completely before constructing queries or exporting the preliminary taxonomy.

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