The blog follows the established and emerging commercial patent information providers, search and software services companies, but also includes other information search and research news as identified through the news-tracker and which I find interesting. This month found content improvements for free patent searchers with Google adding full text patent publications machine translated into English to its patent search product, and Minesoft adding legal status functionality and US litigation information. Legal status checking is an important part of a patent analyst’s job, there are many steps involved to determine who owns the patent (it might not be the company names on the specification), and whether it is actually in-force (valid), (are fees paid?, has it been granted? in which country(ies)). There’s much more, even though a little quiet due to summer holidays, in the Northern hemisphere at least.
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