Patents

PatentExaminer

Jean-Jack Roumanie, Patent Information Manager - Legrand

"Everyone at Legrand agrees that PatentExaminer is an interesting tool.  It enables us to watch new applications and with the legal status, immediately know the stage of current litigations.  PatentExaminer is the most efficient tool available on the market, even if there are improvements to make to perfectly fit our needs.”
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Article from the publication Veille Magazine of February 2008, pages 28 and 29.

Chemical Structure Searching - MMS

Suzanne Robins, Patent Information Services, Inc. President

" I consider it absolutely essential to search Questel’s MMS database as part of a thorough markush chemical structure search.  I often retrieve unique structures from MMS not found elsewhere.”
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QPAT

Hubert Kiehl, Intellectual Property Director at Group SEB

Group SEB chose Questel to build our patent workflow management solution for the following reasons:

The company:

• Large and solid technical team
• Reliable and secure partner with long-term expertise
• High level of security
• 30+ years of expertise in:
  • IP information
  • Engineering (major Patent Offices + industry)
• Solution used by a long list of large firms

The solution:

• The data offered are well structured and fully standardized, avoiding issues linked to format changes and development lags.
• The very powerful and sophisticated Intellixir analytical module which allows us to analyze market shifts
• The ability to index custom fields and data
• The fully automated selective dissemination of watch results
• The ability to attach any file in any format
• The automated event alerting option
• The updating option (of existing families)
  
• The Copy/cut/paste option between workfiles & folders
  
• The ranking capability

The benefits:

• Watch results easier to read
• Better geographical scope of watches: RU, CN, KR, BR, etc.
• Faster and more effective communication between departments
  
• Computer assisted indexing of patent documents
  
• Full text keyword searching
• Text & drawings side by side more efficient
  
• Much greater flexibility in daily IP-related management
  
• Developments accessible by all PatentExaminer users
  
• Secured long term maintenance

To access the complete presentation given at the 2008 IPI CONFEX by Hubert Kiehl, please click here (Zip file).

Michel Gérard, IP Manager for Bolloré

QPAT is a complete tool for making IP searches offering many advantages:

• Intuitive interface
• Usable both by beginner and expert users
  
• Full-text patents available
  
• Customizable to user needs, with different data bases or FamPat
  
• Original full-text facsimiles included
• Ability to organize your results folders (workfiles) by:
  
  • Themes
    
  • Areas of interest for each research engineer
• Customizable to your own organisation and permits to:
• Have an analysis of each patent by Experts
  
• Keep a memory of the expert’s analysis
  
• Authorize further comments by readers
• Manage recurrent DSI (Diffusion of Selected Information) about your own domain of interest:
  
  • In upgrading your folders
    
  • Making difference between patents already analysed and patent new entered in your folders
    
  • Allowing the reader to have a complete view on the patent and its family

With its new powerful statistics tools, the PatentExaminer Workfile module allows to perform deep analyze market trends and technology shifts, enhancing our strategic IP-based decision-making process.

• QPAT enables both particular searches for a given subject and recurrent domain surveys by regular Alerts
  
• Links between QPAT and the PatentExaminer workfiles permit users to easily upgrade their competitors’ patent portfolios
  
• PatentExaminer allows you to have a global overview of your competitor’s landscape
  
• It gives to experts and researchers a daily access to competitor’s patents from their own field of activity
  
• PatentExaminer allows a number of different types of reports and/or exports of your results
• Along with the Workfile module, QPAT is well adapted to a company of any size
  
• By giving different passwords to experts and readers, it allows to have different access levels to patent information
• Giving an easy access to an appropriate patent library, it helps:
  
  • disseminate the IP culture in research laboratories,
    
  • make the researchers closer to patent information and upgrade their autonomy,
    
  • improve research reactivity,
    
  • avoid sterile searches when a domain is already covered by patents,
    
  • identify IP risks and search for proprietary solutions, free of use.