What is the ASPI Program?
Through
the Access to Specialized Patent Information (ASPI) program, patent offices and
academic and research institutions in developing and least developed countries
can receive free or low-cost access to sophisticated tools and services for
retrieving and analyzing patent data. The ASPI program is made possible by a
public-private partnership between the World Intellectual Property Organization
and leading patent information providers.The World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is
dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual
property (IP) system, which rewards creativity, stimulates innovation and
contributes to economic development while safeguarding the public interest.
Who uses PatBase?
Over 15,000 patent professionals use PatBase - in national Patent Offices,
Patent Departments in corporations all around the world, leading multinational
corporations, Patent Attorney Firms, Research Institutes, Technology and
Innovation Centres and other Intellectual Property specialists.
These users rely on PatBase for their daily patent searching needs. For all
kinds of subject searching - including Freedom to Operate, Infringement,
Validity, State-of-the-Art Searches - PatBase has a leading, extensive
collection of patent data from around the world, supplied in English AND a
range of additional languages. See what our customers are saying
here
Why use PatBase?
Unparalleled Coverage - over 40 million patent families including 25 million
full-text records from over 95 issuing authorities – all in a single database!
• Patent Family structure advantage – see the entire invention history, and
avoid duplication. Sophisticated tools such as Priority Map and Family Explorer
to drill down into the patent family
• Keyword searching plus 6 Classification systems including US, IPC, EP, JP –
create complex search queries for more relevant results
• Retrieve Prior Art in all areas of technology with sophisticated search tools
including Citation Tree, Visual Explorer clustering option and SmartClaims
viewer
• Click-through links – take advantage of integrated links to take you beyond
the front page: citations, live legal status, national registers, Image
mosaics, Classification definitions
• Native language searching, multi-lingual Keyword Analysis, on-demand Machine
Translations – important data becomes instantly accessible, whatever the
language.
• PatBase Express with User Interfaces in several languages – including Chinese
and Japanese, English, French, German and Spanish.
Thanks to the ASPI initiative, all of this is available at low cost, or free, for researchers in developing nations.
For further to details on which countries are eligible, click here
Screenshot of Visualisation tools in PatBase Express
The Agreement was signed in Geneva
on Friday 17th September 2010.
For more information, click
here. Download the WIPO leaflet here
Minesoft is proud to be a partner in the ASPI program, offering patent offices
and research institutions access to PatBase – the international patent family
database – a vital resource for searching and analyzing global patent
information. Read our Press
Release here
What is PatBase?
Developed by Minesoft and RWS Group in partnership and launched in October 2003,
PatBase was designed by and for professional patent searchers and continues to
respond and adapt to their needs today.
Organised into patent families, PatBase offers extensive full-text coverage of
global patent filings, with a suite of inbuilt tools to facilitate the process
of searching, identifying, analysing and sharing relevant
patent information.
PatBase is available in two interfaces:
PatBase – for professional searchers
PatBase Express – for end-users
PatBase Express is the multi-lingual, user-oriented international patent family
database, designed to offer the end-user a simple and intuitive way of
searching and analysing patents.
PatBase Express allows access to the same comprehensive data as PatBase, with a
streamlined interface.
For more details please click below, selecting language of your choice:
English,
French, German,
Spanish
Minesoft® (www.minesoft.com),
founded in London in 1996, has become recognised as a leading name in the
patent information world, known for its innovative patent search, workflow and
delivery tools. Minesoft won the Queen's Award for International Trade in 2009,
for outstanding achievement.
Please do get in touch to arrange a web demonstration and a free trial of
PatBase
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