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September/October 2009
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 you?
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 typical patent practitioner's routine? Take a look:
- Research and innovation: Retrieve U.S. and international patents (Westlaw Patents and Thomson Innovation), assignments and other related documents (Westlaw Patents), and scientific literature (Thomson Innovation).
- Application and prosecution: Retrieve patent family trees to review the continuation history of a patent (Westlaw Patents), Westlaw Profiler® 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).
Westlaw Patents + Thomson Innovation thus gives the typical patent practitioner more confidence that no stone will be left unturned—even when time is scarce.
Access points come to you! So how do you access Thomson Innovation? You can get there via a convenient link during your Westlaw session.
Click Link to Thomson Innovation under Patents, Applications, and Assignments on the tabbed Patent Counsel, Intellectual Property, or Westlaw Patents page. After you click the link, a page is displayed that indicates that your Westlaw hourly billing is suspended.
If you do not subscribe to Thomson Innovation, this page states that access is not included in your current subscription. You can click Learn More About Thomson Innovation for information on subscribing. If you already subscribe to Thomson Innovation, you can click a button to continue to the Thomson Innovation Patent Search page or return to Westlaw.
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