The Intellectual Property (IP) Solutions business of Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of the Custom Fields functionality in Thomson Innovation, its IP research and analysis platform. IP professionals, innovators, researchers, attorneys and patent portfolio managers can now expect to create custom fields in Thomson Innovation, allowing them to tag patent records with their own internal data. They can then search, analyse and report on relationships between enterprise-specific and global patent information. The results and analyses can also be shared with others to enhance collaboration and streamline organisational workflow.
Custom Fields on Thomson Innovation enables professionals engaged in the IP lifecycle to add their own internal context to global patent information. For instance, they can apply internal technology classifications to patent records to assign them to specific portfolios or business units; correlate product use or brand information to patent records to aid in valuation assessments; and drive alert result workflows by attaching a process stage to patent records, indicating when it's ready for the next participant in the process to take action. They can also tag records with relevancy indicators to aid R&D colleagues in assessing technologies or to identify potential prior art for legal review. Further, users can import patent portfolio data from Thomson IP Manager, Thomson Reuters' intellectual asset management solution, to perform detailed analyses and make maintenance decisions.
Thomson Innovation claims to be the only IP research platform that allows users to search global patent data, scientific literature, business and news information within a single search. Coupled with Derwent World Patents Index and full text Asia-Pacific patents in English, users can leverage leading analytical capabilities to turn large volumes of data into actionable intelligence, according to the company.
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