Category: Tools

  • By Donald Zuhn — In January, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the addition of several new features to its patent data visualization and analysis tool, PatentsView, which allows the public to interactively engage, through a web-based platform, with a database connecting 40 years of information about inventors, their organizations, and their locations. The…

  • By Donald Zuhn — Last month, the European Patent Office announced the launch of a new machine translation service, Patent Translate.  Patent Translate, which uses Google Translate technology, allows users to translate between English and French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, or Swedish.  The EPO press release on the launch noted that translations offered by the…

  • By Donald Zuhn — Last week, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced the launch of WIPO Lex, a new online global IP resource providing up-to-date information on national IP laws and treaties.  WIPO noted that the new site satisfied one of the Organization's strategic goals, namely to serve as a world reference source for…

  •     By Christopher P. Singer — Internet heavyweight Google has recently launched Google Patent Search, a beta version of a patent searching feature.  Currently, the search program covers issued U.S. Patents from the 1790s through the middle of 2006.  As the company discusses on the FAQ page relating to this service, it hopes to…

  •     By Jason Derry — Innovation Asset Group provides web-based applications for managing intellectual assets.  According to a December 13th press release, the company's major product, Decipher®, has seen a "notable adoption" of use from life sciences companies.  Decipher® is designed to help companies manage several aspects of their intellectual property.  According to its…