Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has announced an exclusive commercial partnership with Explore IP to integrate Derwent™ patent data into its platform. The enhanced Derwent™ patent data will supplement Explore IP’s data in an effort to enable businesses, creators, entrepreneurs and innovators discover intellectual property (IP) held by public sector institutions.
Explore IP, developed by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), showcases an inventory of public sector patents held by government, academia or other public sector institutions. All Canadian public sector patent holders are eligible to have their IP included in the database. Integrating fields from the manually curated patent data from Clarivate, and specifically from Derwent World Patents Index™ (DWPI), into Explore IP will make it far easier for innovators to zero-in on and comprehend relevant patents, identify licensing opportunities with Canadian universities to strengthen their own R&D efforts, and determine potential research partners going forward. Explore IP currently features research expertise from close to 60 public sector institutions including University of Toronto, Université de Montréal and National Research Council.
DWPI delivers editorially enhanced, authoritative and accurate patent data. Users accessing Explore IP to investigate the licensing and collaboration opportunities that exist within Canadian public sector institutions will be able to review and access DWPI abstracts. In turn, DWPI provides users insight on the novelty of the respective invention and how it can be used, along with a re-written title to accurately reflect the nature of the invention for ease of comprehension. IP Explore users will be able to gain a quick and accurate understanding of how the public sector institutions’ inventions may be applied in their industry, as many original patent documents tend to use highly technical terminology to describe the invention.
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