Search procedure and strategy
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2. Search strategy

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2. Search strategy 

2.1 Subject-matter of the search; restrictions
2.2 Devising a search strategy
2.3 Carrying out the search; types of documents
2.4 Redefining the searched subject-matter
2.5 Closest prior art and its effects on the search
2.6 End of search
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