- Searching "raspberry pi solar panel" on the United States Patent and Trademark Office search database using the Trademark Electronic Search System, nothing was found.
- When looking up a way to find service marks, it brought me to the TESS database, which was already used to look for trademarks.
- It is very possible that other ideas similar to ours exist, but using an Arduino or other breadboards to accomplish what we are attempting to do with a raspberry pi, however.
- Similar results arose looking through the U.S. Copyright Office Public Catalog.
- Looking for patents gave a massive variety of things with the keywords "raspberry pi" and "solar", but nothing on the first few pages seemed to be exactly what we were doing.
- The issue with this is the numerous options out there in these databases and the likelihood that we came up with an original idea is next to none.