The IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters has announced the addition of patent records from the patent-issuing authorities of Hong Kong, Poland and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to its Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) database. GCC is a regional office registering patents from member states which include the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, State of Qatar, State of Bahrain, State of Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Sultanate of Oman.
The DWPI database is a comprehensive collection of editorially enhanced patent documents from 47 global issuing authorities and also includes English language abstracts and titles, making it easier for researchers to quickly find the information they need to make informed decisions regarding protected technologies in these key global markets.
New coverage in DWPI includes Hong Kong patent applications, granted patents and short term patents published from January 2011; Polish patent applications, granted patents and utility models published from January 2011; and GCC-granted patents published from 2004. Patent and literature citations are part of the Derwent Patents Citation Index, a companion file to DWPI.
The inclusion of these authorities in DWPI will improve the effectiveness of technology monitoring, prior art research, and freedom-to-operate searching through the English-language content and intellectually applied indexing for these new regions.
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