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Research for prior art

Strategic intelligence for patents

  • State of the Art
  • Freedom to use
  • Potential new technology areas
  • Key players – now and who is looking for the future!
  • Market Intelligence
  • Competitor intelligence
  • Technology intelligence
  • Finding commercialisation partners

Why patents?

They represent the largest freely available technical publication resource;

  • Patents are often the only publication on a subject;
  • Patents are usually the first publication;
  • Large resource: 80+ million documents;
  • Growing rapidly: 2 applications every minute.

Not just IPR / Legal information

  • Bibliographic information (who, where, when – companies and individuals);
  • Technical information (state-of-art, background, research areas);
  • Legal status information (freedom to use, regions protected in);
  • Commercial information (future markets and territories)

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