Patent information in chemistry
Do you need information about new trends in your field or about the development of the competitive companies?
A lot of this information can be found in a patent literature, because new findings from the fields of science and technique emerge there first of all.
Sumbission of a patent application, its publication and following issue of the patent allows the developing company or individual to protect the subject of the patent both in their country and abroad. Only then (if ever) this information is published in other information sources - scientific magazines, trade publications etc. Therefore, the monitoring of the patent literature is very important to keep up with the international development and to catch the new trends in your field.
What can you find in a patent information retrieval?
- latest discoveries in the selected field
- selection of the most important companies in the field (competitive or possible partners) and monitoring of their development
- which of their methods are protected and in what countries (that reveals a lot of their bussiness policy and intentions)
- their patent proprietorship in the Czech Republic
- when their patents expire etc.
Main sources:
The number one in management and publication of patent information is WORLD PATENTS INDEX of the Thomson (Derwent) company. Medistyl company uses for patent informational retrieval and studies also other sources - e.g. Chemical Abstracts, Inpadoc (from STN International network), online sources such as esp@cenet system, the database of the Industrial property office USPTO etc.