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Its really interesting, that Google has so much, that there in no limits for learning with Google. Look at the Google Guide ..Its will open your eyes and certainly give you better insight for information searching. http://www.googleguide.com/

We all are aware of Google, but there are lots of things about Google search, that mey be all of us don't know. Please go through the following link . I am sure, you will find it very useful. http://www.google.com/help/features.html

The Free Library - http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ is a great source for articles and information on your competitors. You can browse by date, author, category and name.

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Maxval provides free Patent Tools as mentioned below to aid patent professionals. * Patent Maintenance Fee * Claim Chart Generator * Claims Compare * Patent Term Calculator * Reference Picker * Patent Alert

The Patent Licensing Database contains information on Japanese patent open for license http://www.ryutu.inpit.go.jp/en/db/index.html

Due diligence in a corporate transaction often involves investigating a business entity’s position with respect to the patent landscape. This typically involves preparing or reviewing opinion letters from counsel. This paper addresses how such patent opinion letters are prepared or evaluated. A freedom-to-operate opinion letter typically involves a “product clearance” investigation to proactively identify and dispose of patents in the area of the entity’s products, thereby proactively reducing the risk of subsequent patent problems. Close patents are typically analyzed in separate non-infringement opinion letters. A non-infringement opinion lette r distinguishes a product or service from close patent claims by first construing the claims within the analytical framework set forth by judicial precedent, and then reading the claims upon the product to establish no infringement, both literally, and under the doctrine of equivalents. The non-infringement letter serves to avoid known proble...

Prior art (also known as or state of the art) includes all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality. What can be prior art? Any publication, in any form, in principle qualifies as prior art. It includes, patents, scientific publications, textbooks, newspapers, lectures, demonstrations and exhibitions and any other disclosures. Also, the intended audience for the publication is mostly irrelevant. Whether an invention is described in a highly technical electrical engineer's journal, or in a junior high school textbook, does not matter. The textbook counts as prior art just like the journal, if both were published before the filing date of the patent application. Publicly available products also count as prior art, even though it may be very difficult to determine exactly what the product is made of or how it works. If a device is put on the market before the patent application...

General search engines like Google have changed the world of the Internet. But if you're looking for science-specific results, Scirus is about to change your professional life. SCIRUS have made this science to filter out non-scientific information. So you won't end up in a Tennessee attraction park after entering 'Dolly'. Evidence? Do the Scirus-Google test now. And find out how less leads to more. Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet, linking to more than 167 million indexed scientific pages and documents. With Scirus you can search through a variety of sources, such as Medline, ScienceDirect, BioMedCentral, preprint servers, patents and web sites relevant for your research. Scirus helps you save time and speed up research. Enhanced efficiency and advanced functionality help you search on specific bibliographical information or within specific sources. The refine terms help you quickly select terms that improve the...

A collection of all the business informations related databases in pdf format. This can be useful of all knowledge information mining professionals. A-Z List of Business Databases

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has announced that all Canadian registered industrial designs from December 1961 onwards are now available on their website. The Canadian Industrial Designs Database now contains over 110,000 designs.

Hakia s a "meaning-based" search engine startup getting a bit of buzz. It is a venture-backed, multi-national team company headquartered in New York - and curiously has former US senator Bill Bradley as a board member. It launched its beta in early November this year, but already ranks around 33K on Alexa - which is impressive. They are scheduled to go live in 2007. The user interface is similar to Google, but the engine prompts you to enter not just keywords - but a question, a phrase, or a sentence

1. Clusty — A metasearch engine that combines the results of several top search engines. 2. Intute — A searchable database of trusted sites, reviewed and monitored by subject specialists. 3. INFOMINE — A virtual library of Internet resources relevant to university students and faculty. Built by librarians from the University of California, California State University, the University of Detroit-Mercy, and Wake Forest University. 4. Librarians' Internet Index — A search engine listing sites deemed trustworthy by actual human librarians, not just a Googlebot. 5. Internet Archive — A database of tens of thousands of movies, live music, audio, texts, and home of the Wayback Machine that allows you to find old versions of web pages, over 55 billion. 6. direct search — A list of hundreds of specialty databases and search engines. No longer maintained, but still perhaps the most complete list of the deep web.

Dissect Medicine is a collaborative medical news website, which indexes and ranks international medical news. It spans general interest articles to basic research. Dissect Medicine users submit news items for review with tags and keywords. These are then ranked by the user group. This ensures that only the most relevant, and influential articles will make it as a current headline story.

Google Scholar is widely know as a value research paper search tool. Its search results can be restricted to the years of your choice.

Steps to protect ownership of IP filled circle Employee agreements: secure invention assignments filled circle Confidentiality agreements filled circle Records: keep proper laboratory documentation that supports your ownership and dates of invention filled circle Material transfer agreements: limit the ways in which your partners can use the biological samples you supply Technology audit: know what is yours filled circle Identify key developments, products, processes, know-how, and trade secrets filled circle Identify your core technologies that require protection filled circle Learn what can be protected and what cannot filled circle Identify the intellectual property you need that is, or may be, owned by others filled circle Recognize which aspects of your core technology are in the public domain Build and maintain a valuable IP portfolio filled circle Match your strategic goals with your proprietary rights filled circle Claim early, claim often, and update patent applicat...

Putting in place a sound strategy for protecting and maximizing a company's intellectual property can boost its future value , say Steven Meltzer, Michelle Marks, and James McCormick. This article suggests ten basic steps that you can take to build a solid IP foundation that will help attract funding from investors Step 1: Identify your core technologies Step 2: Audit your technology, understand your rights Step 3: Gauge your chances of IP protection Step 4: Get employees to assign inventions to the company Step 5: Implement non-competition and confidentiality agreements Step 6: Establish procedures to protect your IP rights Step 7: Use patent applications offensively and defensively Step 8: Focus on the scope of your claims Step 9: Keep informed of your competitors' rights Step 10: Seek low-cost revenue opportunities Link to full text of article

Competitive intelligence (CI) gathering is essential to developing a biotech firm's business strategy, but few startups have sufficient support systems in place to do CI effectively. The article, " T he role of competitive intelligence in biotech startups ", the first of two on the topic, addresses why it is important and how to do it. Link to full article

The application of guidelines linked to the concept of drug-likeness, such as the 'rule of five', has gained wide acceptance as an approach to reduce attrition in drug discovery and development. However, despite this acceptance, analysis of recent trends reveals that the physical properties of molecules that are currently being synthesized in leading drug discovery companies differ significantly from those of recently discovered oral drugs and compounds in clinical development. The consequences of the marked increase in lipophilicity — the most important drug-like physical property — include a greater likelihood of lack of selectivity and attrition in drug development. Tackling the threat of compound-related toxicological attrition needs to move to the mainstream of medicinal chemistry decision-making. Link to article

Patent literature is a valuable source of scientific information, and, while research published in journals is overproportionally cited in patents dealing with biotechnological and pharmaceutical inventions compared to the rest of the patent literature, the reverse is unfortunately not true. A recent study concluded that only 0.25% of articles covering all biological sciences (referenced in the Science Citation Index from 1998) cite patents. An obvious reflection of this neglect is the lack of a specific reference style format for patents in the instructions for authors of most biomedical journals, presumably because only few people ever ask for it. While this ignorance of patents as an information source might be considered to be a bigger problem in engineering and material sciences, a recent comment in Nature pointed out that some patents contain more detailed information than the corresponding scientific papers (in this case it was about stem cell technology). Click to read full ar...

Scirus science-specific search engine Guide to downloading patent copies, with many links to software/services Information regarding Asian patent sites at EPO English machine-translations for Japanese patents at Industrial Property Digital Library internet service * Front page: http://www.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/homepg_e.ipdl * Search mask: http://www4.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/Tokujitu/tjsogodben.ipdl?N0000¼115 A selection of links to general information on patents/tutorials: * A collection of very instructive tutorials around patents * Interactive training course at Espacenet (primarily for using the EPO database, but contains also many general explanations about patents * Collection of USPTO guides and manuals * Comprehensive online tutorial for USPTO at the University of Texas, Austin * Links to style manuals at the Arizona State University

WIPO provides comprehensive list of Intellectual Property Offices of all countries at Directory of Intellectual Property Offices .

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