WHY?
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- Direct your R&D strategies
- Get to know the research teams in a field
- Determine emerging, promising technologies
- Search for precise technical information
- Discover potential partners, monitor your competitors
- Identify new players entering the market
- Define market trends and opportunities
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PATENTS =
AVAILABLE INFORMATION
The patent is an industrial property right which gives the patent owner the exclusive right to exploit an invention and exclude others from so doing as from a certain date and for a limited period. In return, the technical information relating to the invention must be disclosed in the patent application so that anyone can reproduce it. Patent applications are published 18 months after the filing date.
Patent applications contain technical, economic and legal information.
HOW?
TOOLS
Patent databases:
- PatentScope *
www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/search.jsf - Esp@cenet *
http://worldwide.espacenet.com - Global Patent Index
https://data.epo.org/expert-services/index.html - Google Patents
https://patents.google.com - Lens
https://www.lens.org
* These databases allow you to process information contained in patents through statistics.
Contact
Réseau LiEU
contact@reseaulieu.be
+32(0)81/62.25.94
