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| December |
Questel announces LBO by SGCE
On December 21st,
SG Capital Europe take a majority share in Questel through an LBO operation. Management and employees of Questel remain significant shareholders in the Company. |
| May |
Questel Acquires INCOM IPS Business
Today May 31st 2007, Questel announced the acquisition of INCOM IPS business. INCOM IPS,
based in Bonn, Germany, is a well known and respected company in the intellectual property
field, with more than 15 years experience with patent information processing. Their key patent
solution products include PATWARE, professional solution for managing digital; PatCitation, for
searching and monitoring patent cited references; PatDocs, for delivering worldwide electronic
patent copies; and PatLegal, for monitoring patent family and legal status. |
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| June |
Questel
acquires DesignMuster and expands offering to registered
industrial designs
Questel today announced the acquisition of a majority
share in DesignMuster, a start-up company dedicated
to registered industrial design information. This start-up
developed DesignFinderSM, a very powerful workflow management
system aimed at federating, retrieving and watching
registered industrial design information. A special
focus has been put on rapidly browsing large numbers
of images and pictures. DesignFinderSM communicates
information securely between right holders and agencies
involved in the policing and enforcement of intellectual
property rights. |
| March |
IPIConfex - Athens, Greece
M. Pierre Buffet received the IPI-Award 2006
• M. Pierre Buffet Speech
• Speech in Honour of the IPI-Award Recipient 2006 M. Pierre Buffet, by M. Prof.Dr.-Ing. Georg F. Schultheiss
• M. Pierre Buffet Biography |
January
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Tributes to Everett Brenner
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death last week of Everett Brenner, a pioneer in the development of electronic information retrieval. Ev was the Director of the Central Abstracting and Indexing Service (CAIS) for the American Petroleum Institute (API) from the early 1960s until his retirement in 1988. Under his direction, API’s renowned APILIT and APIPAT databases were among the first to be made available online in the mid-1970s. Ev was also instrumental in the development of a machine-aided indexing system that retrieved 70% of the required controlled vocabulary automatically for these databases.
Ev worked with many of us who are still involved in information retrieval today: the API CAIS employees; the customers involved in one of the many API database task forces; and students of the many courses he taught.
Ev taught us to always consider the opportunities technology offered and not get stuck in old ways. As CAIS employees under “Mr. Brenner” (as most of us called him), we have very fond memories of working with him and the extended family that we became at CAIS under his guidance. He was always positive, took bold chances with our ideas, and had a smile on his face. He was a great person to learn from and we will always feel indebted to him.
Joe Terlizzi - Questel's
IP Specialist
Elliott Linder - Questel's
Sales Manager Northern America
A
case study of Questel in IP information
Mechtild Stock and Wolfgang G. Stock - Germany
"This study presents a detailed description and
analysis of an information-industry company: the online-host
Questel. [...] We are going to outline the company’s
history originating from the two formerly separate
systems Orbit and Télésystèmes
Questel. We describe the company’s present structure,
its clients and content supply, with a special focus
on the retrieval systems of patent information as
well as trademark information. Furthermore, we are
going to discuss the market situation of these information
products particularly in regard to aspects such as
competitive position, cooperating partners, pricing
policy and critical success factors. Finally, we present
a SWOT analysis, an analysis of strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats." |
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| 2005 |
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December
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Sponsor
of Jacques Emile Dubois Reward, Questel receives the
recognition of the Chemical Structure Association Trust
in its Autumn 2005 Newsletter. |
| September |
Questel
Acquires Edital, and Consolidates its World Presence
in Trademark
Questel and Edital have announced that they have signed
a merger agreement under which Questel will acquire
Edital. This agreement allows two complementary companies
to join forces and confirm their global presence in
both the trademark and patent markets.
Find out more about Edital... |
| July |
Questel
Acquires DigiPat, A Top Patent File History Provider
Questel, a leading worldwide provider of IP (intellectual
property) information solutions, announced that it has
acquired DigiPat, a US company based in Alexandria,
Virginia.
DigiPat specializes in the delivery of US and international patent and trademark documents in several convenient formats, as well as providing offline research services. Their close proximity to the USPTO allows them to obtain documents quickly and provide their clients on site representation at the Patent Office.
Learn more about DigiPat... |
| April |
Questel
annouces its 2004 results
We continued to underscore our strategy, which is centered on the vertical integration of our services in the field of intellectual property. |
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| 2004 |
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| August |
Questel
Acquires 12.5% of Lingway’s Capital (PDF)
Questel announced today the acquisition of 12.5% of
Lingway’s capital.
Questel and Lingway have been partnering
for the last year in creating the soon to be released,
PatReader product, a tool to improve full-text patent
reading efficiency. |
| April |
Questel
Announces its 2003 Results (PDF) |
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| 2003 |
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| December |
Questel
& Lingway sign Exclusive Agreement to Incorporate
Technology Improving Full-Text Patent Reading Efficiency |
| October |
Questel
and Patolis Corporation Expand Global Partnership
(PDF) |
| April |
Questel
Announces 2002 Results (PDF) |
| February |
Questel
and anacubis™ Form Strategic Partnership to
Offer Visualization and Analysis Tools for Patent Professionals
(PDF) |
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| 2001 |
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| December |
Questel
Managing Director, Pierre Buffet, Receives Online Information
Lifetime Achievement Award (PDF) |
