
Information Sources in Patents
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"It is a welcome new edition. [...] This volume is an excellent guide to patent resources and searching techniques [...] a well organised and handy volume" (World Patent Information, Beckenham, Nr. 3, 2006)More details
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Content
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Principles of patenting
- 2. The European Patent system
- 3. The United States patent system
- 4. The Japanese patent system
- 5. Major national and regional patent systems
- 6. Patent guides and libraries
- 7. National and international patent information sources
- 8. Common search types (I) - Alerting searches
- 9. Common search types (II) - Patentability and freedom-to-operate searches
- 10. Common search types (III) - Portfolio and legal status searches
- 11. Commercial intelligence
- 12. Specialist techniques
- 13. Future developments
- Backmatter
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Copy protection: Watermark-DRM (Digital Rights Management)
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