Work with your partner to conduct research to answer the following questions.1. What is the design challenge that you are working on?

2. What are some possible products that relate to the design challenge?

3. Give at least three examples of existing patents that relate to your design challenge.

Suggested websites to use: US patent and Trademark Office: http://www.uspto.gov Google patent search: http://www.google.com/patents

Patent name:

Website:

Brief description:

How this relates to your design challenge:

Patent name:

Website:Brief description:

How this relates to your design challenge:

Patent name:

Website:

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How this relates to your design challenge:

Step 2: Research the Problem Activity — Patent Search Worksheet

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