Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

INSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT had started Certificate Course on Patent Portfolio Creation & Management. The Course will contains the following Modules: # Patent Procedures and Practices at the Indian Patent Office # Patent Drafting - Complete Procedural Manual and Best Practices for Drafting Patent Applications # Patent Search-Mapping - Complete Procedural Manual for Conducting and Analysing Patent Searches # Patent Commercialization - Guide to Post-Grant Patent Procedures focusing on Patent Valuation, Commercialization, Due-Diligence, Licensing and Litigation More Information

Coremine Medical gives you quick access to detailed information on diseases, drugs, treatments and medical biology. When you search Coremine Medical you access a database that is structured to relate important terms to your search word. Another important feature of Coremine is the Workspace that allows you to save your searches and results. The Workspace makes it easy for you to come back to a subject and continue to explore and learn. Also, functions within the Workspace and at other points in Coremine provide tools for making notes and sharing results.

Patentscrounger is a US patents search tool, which provides the results in the form of images. You can easly compare the drawings through visuals. Try it http://www.patentscrounger.com/

PatMedia is a Hybrid Retrieval Engine for patent multimedia content developed by the Multimedia Knowledge Laboratory at the Informatics and Telematics Institute. This search engine is capable of retrieving content as in four modes: * Patent Browsing: based on patent information. * Visual Search: based on an advnaced algorithm that extracts an innovative feature for binary image retrieval named: the Adaptive Hierarchical Density Histograms, with a view to finding similar content. * Text Retrieval: based on the textual description of the figures in the patent document. * Hybrid Retrieval: combines the aforementioned search options with filtering based on figure description and category.

SOPHIA have announced the release of their patent search service based on the SOPHIA V2.0 search & discovery core. Searching for patent information is a major challenge and conventional approaches all rely on the user knowing exactly what they are looking for and being able to describe it accurately in order to recover it. The irony is, with patent searching users rarely know what they are looking for as they are trying to discover information they don’t yet know exists – an almost impossible task with conventional tools. SOPHIA’s semantic search & discovery tool offers a means of discovering knowledge easily either through conventional descriptions or exemplar documents. The user no longer has to be able to describe exactly what they are looking for in order to discover, understand and retrieve useful information. In addition, because SOPHIA facilitates the browsing of semantic neighbourhoods of documents, it is easy to understand which companies are working in specific areas,...

• SparkIP US patent search • iBoogie US patent search via Google http://www.iboogie.com/default.asp?name_tab=10 • PatentCluster -US patent search and clustering • Patents.com (US, EP)

• EAPATIS Eurasian patent search • IPEXL pat search: CN,TW,HK,SG,JP,KR,PCT,US,EP,CA • Patent Analysis:US,EP,WO,NZ,AU, Inpadoc • PatentLens (US, EP, PCT, AU): Text Search; Title, Abstract, Claims Search • FreePatentsOnline (US, EP, WO, JP): Patent Claim Search; Text Search • Boliven Patents: US, WO, EP, JP patent search • PATENTSCOPE: WO claim search via Google; CT title, abstract, claim search; WO publication number search • Patents.com US patent search • Google US Patents • Esp@cenet: SmartSearch; Title or Abstract Search; Assignee Search; Inventor Search; IPC Search; Find ECLA; Number Search • IPEXL pat search: CN,TW,HK,SG,JP,KR,PCT,US,EP,CA • USPTO: US Granted Patents; US Patent Applications • Esp@cenet: Japanese Publ - Title or Abstr; - IPC Search • Esp@cenet: Chinese Publ - Title or Abstr; Chinese Publ - IPC Search • Esp@cenet: EP Publ - Title or Abstr; EP Publ - IPC SearchEsp@cenet: PCT Publ - Title or Abstr • Esp@cenet: PCT Publ - IPC Search • Esp@cenet: US Publ - Title or Abstr...