IP News flash new beta website is amazing, its EP Monitor system is very useful to get updated with the recent patent activities by competitors in specific IPC CLass.
The licensing plan First, you need to write down a specific plan. More specifically: 1. Develop a strategy. Will it be an exclusive or non-exclusive license? Will it be limited to various fields? Will it augment sales after your company launches the product? Will you be licensing a limited number licensees or staging them in? What incentives have you considered? 2. Do a SWOT analysis. This is a term used by licensing experts which means you need to analyze and evaluate your intellectual property’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. This is important, because your licensees will do this and if you’re not prepared, you’ll not be able to handle their questions. With these two steps completed, you will want to start taking action. Next: 1. Find licensees. Use New Product Summaries and the methods discussed in the web pages on marketing inventions. 2. Research interested candidates. Once a candidate is identified, research it to better understand it. 3. Start with a term shee...
As a result of cooperative effort between the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the People’s Republic of China, Chinese patent documentation is now available for search and retrieval from the USPTO website via the Global Patent Search Network. This tool will enable the user to search Chinese patent documents in the English or Chinese language. The data available include fulltext Chinese patents and machine translations. Also available are full document images of Chinese patents which are considered the authoritative Chinese patent document. Users can search documents including published applications, granted patents and utility models from 1985 to 2012. More
A lot of clustering tools are available in the WWW web. Patents are long being realized as an important source of the technical and competitive information. As the number of patent filing is increased in the recent few years, there are a big list of patents if one search for a particular technology of interest, which need to be analyzed further to get the key patents of interest, but it’s really a time consuming and need expertise due to the techno-legal language of the patent document. Patent clustering tools are currently in development by many vendor and software companies to aid the patent analyst in his daily analysis and review of huge set of patent documents. PatentCluster .com provides patent cluster tools, where documents get automatically clustered into various clusters based on the technology elements and patent focus.
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