Patent Search Systems: Specialize or Diversify Your Knowledge?

I'm curious to hear what everyone here has to say...there are benefits to both approaches!

Here is a timeline of the copyright controversy surrounding the popular social media platform Pinterest.  Has Pinterest done enough to address these intellectual property issues?

This round-up looks at the latest Orbit.com features that will be released on April 8, and learn how to get a 30 day free trial for the the USGENE BLAST Search Portal.

This winter, two new data sources were added to PubChem, and patent searchers looking for prior art in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields may find useful data from both resources.

On 22nd March 2012, Colin Hunsley, our Commercialisation Director, presented a seminar for the Licensing Executives Society, Britain and Ireland, in London. The presentation, sponsored by Charles Russel LLC, was entitled 'The Perfect Portfolio' and covered key areas to achieving the perfect IP portfolio, including:

• Patent Landscaping
• Innovation Capture
• Patent Acquisition
• Joining Aggregators
• Patent Check…

Pinterest users interested in patents are already using the social media platform in a variety of creative ways: sharing humorous patent documents, patent news, and even patent search resources.

Here is a round-up of the March 2012 updates for PatBase, such as new cross-lingual search options, a Patent Drawings viewer, new legal status search options, and more.  The PatBase Express platform also has new features, like a non-Latin text search option.

Legal IQ is delighted to launch The Intellectual Property (IP) Portfolio Management Trends and Success Factors 2012 white paper based on a survey of 600 legal professionals. The report reviews the recent challenges and changes in IP.

It draws upon the insight of leading legal professionals from across the world, and across Patents…

Basketball Bracket Busting Patents

We're basketball crazy over in the US right now. Celebrate with us in this blog post!

What does it take to be a successful trademark searcher?  Here is a profile of one professional trademark searcher, who has an extensive background in trademark law.

Learn about the analysis capabilities and overall strengths and weaknesses of the new patent search and analysis platform, WIPS Global ADVANCED.

There has been a lot of patent machine translation news lately, with the release of the EPO's Patent Translate service.  Here is a quick look at Patent Translate and a bilingual search platform for non-patent literature: 2lingual.

TMView is a free search platform maintained by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) which allows users to search trademark data from 25 European trademark offices, as well as trademark data from OHIM and WIPO.

Do you use WIPS Global for patent searching?  The system will soon be replaced by WIPS Global ADVANCED, and here is a review of the new patent search and analysis platform!

Musical Patents in Memory of Davy Jones

We take a look back at some music patents of yesteryear (and today!). Have a great weekend everyone.

Well, after testing several features I decided to make some new changes.

• IP Blog search is moved from front page to separate page.
• Forum is back! You can find latest discussions on front page and on Forum tab on menu.
• Same with Member Map, it's…

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