As Andy says on his info page, this is a "one-stop information resource to inventors, attorneys, artists, writers and editors, engineers and students, and any others interested in the broad fields of patents, trademarks and copyrights".
Worldwide available tools that are useful in the field of patents, and that are freely accessible on the Internet, are reviewed.
The American Civil Liberties Union, a free-speech advocacy group, made its debut appearance in the field of patent law to argue that allowing patents on mental processes would run afoul of the constitutional protection for freedom of thought.In this section Trouble in the pipeline No deal Calling across the Indian Ocean Charge!
Thus, I expect that the need for people with scientific (and engineering) expertise in the field of patent mapping is on the increase.
In order to qualify to sit the exam, a candidate has to be a Canadian resident and must have worked in the field of patent practice for at least 12 months.
For the more technically inclined, a move into the lucrative field of patent law, in which the remuneration can be as much as SGD$90,000 per annum, could prove to be the best career decision now.
The activities in the year 2001 of some 46 intellectual property offices and organizations worldwide in the field of patent, trademark and industrial design information are summarized, based on the Annual Technical Reports (ATRs) provided by those offices and organizations.
The field of patent law is one that can be both confusing and complex.
In the field of patent affairs, where the "novelty search" has a similar significance, it is estimated that the cost of duplicate research due to irrelevant information retrieval amounts to about €20 billion a year in Europe alone (European Patent Office 2009).
When a company has narrowed the field of relevant patents, its R&D department may use Aurigin's advanced editor to study the patents in detail.
It has also been demonstrated that scholarly work in a range of fields and patents generated by larger teams of coauthors tends to have greater impact over time [12].
