Searching The IEEE Computer Science Digital Library

The Intellogist Blog looks at this helpful online research for computing prior-art! We show you what you can get for free, and what you have to pay for. It's a worthy resource.

This directory of free medical journal content offers a great starting point for a PubMed search.

Virtual Data Room - replacing the traditional deal rooms of the past. 

Dear Colleague, I wanted to let you know that we will be running the courses necessary to obtain the Certified Patent Valuation Analyst designation in the UK and in Europe in November.

The dates are Dusseldorf, Germany - November 21-22 and London, UK - November 24-25.

The specific courses we are offering are:

• Valuation of Emerging…

Is Google the only reliable tool for free searching, or are there alternatives?  Exalead presents some useful features, like a unique "advanced search" format, bookmarking options, and a variety of filters in the search results.  Learn how Exalead features measure up to Google.

Text Comparison with Patent Workbench™

We show you how to game the system and get a helpful text comparison tool for your next search or patent prosecution, for free, by downloading the sample Patent Workbench™ Reader and file.

Helpful and something you can use every day!

Here is a second installment of "Profile of a Patent Translator," where a patent translator describes their viewpoints on the necessary tools and skills to be successful in the patent translation profession.

Patentics is a free patent search site with an incredible range of features: relavency ranking by patent or keyword, concept searching, and analysis features for registered users.

We take a look at a new blog where the author describes his experiences studying for the Patent Bar Exam.

While presenting at WIPO Conference on Innovation and Climate change in Geneva, Quentin Tannock, (Chairman, Boliven.com) was interviewed by  climatechange.tv on IP models relating to climate change.

In his presentation at the Conference: 

• explained how systems like…

It has been a while since I did any patent research of any kind. Then I had one of those ideas running through my head. Why not map out an industry in a given city, based on their innovation factor (which is a proprietary, qualitative algorithm I'm not going to share :P) and the company/institute's age? It makes an interesting chart.... enjoy:

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In the UK alone, it is estimated that more than 70% of all creative individuals and firms do not utilize any form of IP protection.

Primarily, this is due to the complexities and costs involved with traditional IP mechanisms and their inability to protect core, pre-commercialized ideas inherent in visually articulated works.

As such traditional mechanisms are neither fit for purpose nor cost efficient for those whose working life is spent on idea generation.  

Yet the…

Did you know that the lists of search resources used by USPTO Examiners are freely available online?  Check out our latest Intellogist Blog post to learn more about the USPTO Search Templates!

The Wonderful Free Resources of the Library of Congress

The Intellogist Blog covers and shows you why you should be checking out this wealth of knowledge today. All prior art searchers report!

We highlight IPNewsFlash, a site with a wide variety of IP news feeds, prior art search tools, and the latest USPTO and EPO caselaw.  Are there any other websites that have a variety of IP tools and news available through one portal?

We are pleased to announce that World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has listed the Boliven Landscape: Pandemic Influenza (H1N1 & H5N1) patenting trends under WIPO's  Compilation of Published Patent…

What does it take to be a patent translator?  We interview a patent translation manager and a patent translator to try and figure out what skills are needed to become a successful patent translator.

RCD-Online Design Search – Free European Design Searching

We take a look at this design search site. It's worth your time to add it to your toolbelt!

The Patent Workbench™ Reader Search Module

Landon IP brings you an in-depth look at how search works within Patent Workbench™. See how keyword in context, search fragments, bookmarks, included PDF viewer, and all-encompassing search all play into making the Search Module meet the needs and requests of our customers.

An engineer (UC Berkeley), inventor and a US Patent Agent, Kevin has collected a unique set of patent art over five years as a patent researcher, taking note along the way of those patents having exceptional artistic merit. Now these are being compiled into a coffee table art book that will be published later this year.

 

An art book celebrating some of the best patent drawings of…