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Last year the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) launched the Better World Project to promote public understanding of how academic research and technology transfer benefits society and improves our way of life. AUTM has now released two publications highlighting … Continue reading →

The latest issue of the EPO’s Patent Information News (formerly EPIDOS News) is now available. Articles include: – Determining the value of a European patent – IPC8 data in the EPO’s databases – IPC reform and XML – IPC reform … Continue reading →

The European Patent Office has published two new guides on how to search Chinese and Japanese designs using Locarno classifications. Look for them under “Tips and Tricks for Searching Databases” in the EPO Far East FAQ – Japan and FAQ … Continue reading →

The British Library has launched a new service for innovators, entrepreneurs and business owners called the “Business and IP Centre” or BIPC. BIPC is built around the impressive patent and market research collections of the BL and offers free workshops, … Continue reading →

Librarians and historians know that researching early U.S. patents is often a frustrating exercise that ends in disappointment. Although the U.S. government registered approximately 10,000 patents from 1790 through 1836, almost all original U.S. patent documents and files from this … Continue reading →

U.S. patent issues remained strong but stable in the second half of February and into the first week in March, perhaps signaling an end to four months of lower than anticipated patent grants. The number of published applications jumped to … Continue reading →

A little late but the Jan/Feb issue of Thomson’s KnowledgeLink newsletter has an interesting article highlighting the most important patent developments in China, Europe, India, Japan and the US. A PROLIFIC YEAR IN PATENTING – 2006 PATENT FOCUS REPORT

According to a report in Federal Computer Week, the Energy Department’s Office of Science and Technology Information is launching a new “megaportal” initiative called Global Discovery that will allow users to retrieve scientific and technical information from four existing portals, … Continue reading →

In December 2004, Google announced a partnership with four university libraries and the New York Public Library to scan and digitize millions of the books in their collections, many of them copyrighted. The goal of Google Book Search, as the … Continue reading →

The number of issued patents continued to rise through the first three weeks in February, reaching a six-month high of 4,064 on February 21. A patent milestone was reached on February 14: the USPTO issued patent no. 7,000,000. The total … Continue reading →