Westlaw Patents + Thomson Innovation: Work smarter at every stage of the patent life cycle

What does the new Westlaw Patents + Thomson Innovation offering mean to your organization?

It means that all of your patent work is now sharpened by authoritative legal content and a vast arsenal of international patent documents, scholarly literature, and productivity tools. It means that at every stage of the patent process—from prior art research and innovation through assertion of patent rights—your work is smarter, faster, and more complete.

How, precisely, does this offering fit into the patent practitioner's routine? Take a look:

Research and innovation: Retrieve U.S. and international patents (Westlaw Patents and Thomson Innovation), related documents (Westlaw Patents), and scientific literature (Thomson Innovation).
Application and prosecution: Retrieve patent family trees (Westlaw Patents), Westlaw ProfilerÂ® information for examiners and judges (Westlaw Patents), and Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI) data (Westlaw Patents and Thomson Innovation). Integrate DWPI, INPADOC, and other patent data into a single record (Thomson Innovation).
Monitoring and maintenance: Uncover connections between patents using KeyCite® (Westlaw Patents), and scientific literature and citation mapping (Thomson Innovation). Use data landscaping and clustering tools (Thomson Innovation).
Licensing and commercialization: Review treatises and other analytical material (Westlaw Patents). Retrieve patent family information (Westlaw Patents) and English-language translations of international patent data (Thomson Innovation). Export data into preformatted reports and charts (Thomson Innovation).
Protection and assertion: Use claims versioning, Markman materials, and court documents (Westlaw Patents) to review changes that affect patent claims. Use citation-mapping technology (Thomson Innovation).