Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

Free resources for searching nucleotide and amino acid sequences in patent documents are scarce. Two resources are PatentLens and Patome@Korea. PatentLens will be reviewed in a separate posting. Patome@Korea is newly launched. The database contains biological sequences obtained from Korean Patent Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and from KRIBB (Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology), a research institute and Center of Excellence for national biotechnology R&D. Data CAMBIA 's Patent Sequence Search Tool NCBI BLAST (select "Patent sequences (pat) as database)

KoreaMed is established by the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors(KAMJE) with support by Korean Academy of Medical Science, Health Technology Planning and Evaluation Board to have easy access to Korean Medical Journals. . KoreaMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles. KoreaMed LinkOut is a feature to provide users with links from KoreaMed to relevant Korean medical journal websites providing full text articles. KoreaMed Retro is an extended service to provide access to articles published in Korean medical journals before 1997. To participate in KoreaMed Retro, editors should submit XML files confirming to KoreaMed DTD to KAMJE. KoreaMed Central is to assist journal publishers to establish and maintain websites providing full-text journals online. Please contact KAMJE to participate in this program.

Patents has strong impact on the performance of an economy and on the success of an organization. Despite, it is generally viewed as a legal instrument that protects a tech­nology. It's true, but it is also a powerful competitive tool and a valuable business asset. Patent data could prive valuable intelligence for technical Patent and technol¬ogy intelligence is very crucial in today competitive environment directing the innovation process. Tracking of patent can help in providing directions for the innovation portfolio, perfecting the design of the product under development and avoid in re-inventing. Detailed analysis of patents could be used to assess the competitive position and expected competitive moves. The patenting history of a competitor reveals the technology road map they are following and possible insight for their future moves. A comparative analysis of competitor’s patent portfolio could reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the competition's technological positi

Landon IP is truly innovator. It has launched, I ntellogist, a free online tool that provides the intellectual property (IP) community with a revolutionary resource for finding objective information about patent searching tools and sharing best practices. it provides the information pertaining to: Search System Reports: Se e detailed information on search systems Best Practices in Prior Art Searching: Collaborate on best practices for prior art searching Quick Table Comparisons: Quickly compare patent search systems Resource Finder: Find prior art resources by technical field Interactive Patent Coverage Map: Find patent search systems by clicking on a map Apart from these, the discussion forum is also good.

SOOPAT -world wide patent search in chinese

PatServ tool developed by HTS Resources Patent Informaticsis, can be used to get current legal, bibliographic and family data for a given patent document in a single click.