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The number and importance of patents and patent applications (“patent documents” thereafter) are increasing at a rapid rate, worldwide. Patent literatures have technical strategic importance since approximately 25% of all scientific or technical publications produced each year originate in patent offices around the world. Most of which can be searched as any other kind of literature in databases. Searching the patent literature can be beneficial for many reasons: - avoiding re-inventing the wheel and spending a lot of money doing it; - avoiding wasted legal costs in pursuing patents for “old” technology; - avoiding potential infringement situations; - discovering research ideas and solving problems; - monitoring the activities of players in the field to reveal future plans; - predicting hot-areas of research that can impact on current products and those that are in the development stage; - uncovering new market players; - identifying patents owned and licensed by firms; and - assessing

Infringement Probability Each patent is assessed and tentatively rated with respect to its suitability for assertion against products of the opposing party. The rationale for each patent selected and the claims argument is articulated in a written summary. The object of these exercises is to assign to each inventor's patent a value, in terms of degree of confidence of the likelihood that the target company's products infringe that patent according to the following criteria: 1. Super-high infringement category includes those patents whose claims appear clearly and unambiguously to apply directly to one or more products of the target company. Patent claims in this category force the target company to capitulate to the inventor's patent license negotiation demands, or defend itself by redesigning the product, or attempt to invalidate the patent through prior art research. 2. High infringement value patents are those where paper-level and applications analysis indicate some asp

PIUG had announced the Call for Papers for IPI-ConfEx 2008 - Best Practices in Patent Information Management and Searching . IPI-ConfEx 2008 will take place 2nd – 6th March 2008 in the beautiful city of Seville in southern Spain . The tradition of IPI-ConfEx is to highlight best practices utilized by corporate patent information professionals with respect to searching, analysis and management of patent information. For more information visit the IPI-ConfEx website

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To retrieve patents relating to your invention the following strategy can be followed: • Define the technical concepts best describing the invention with different sets of keywords. • Combine comprehensively these concepts (keywords). • Retrieve relevant patents and check their classification symbols. • Continue the search combining concepts using both classification symbols and keywords.

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The Federal Judicial Center publishes a 17-minute video (QuickTime, Real Media and Windows Media Player formats) "designed to be shown to jurors in patent jury trials. It contains important background information intended to help jurors understand what patents are, why they are needed, how inventors get them, the role of the Patent and Trademark Office, and why disputes over patents arise." It is about 65 megabytes in file size.

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