The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the launch of a Thomson Innovation user interface in Japanese (www.thomsoninnovation.com) in a bid to enhance productivity and decision making for Japanese intellectual property (IP) professionals. Japan remains the worldwide leader in published patents, according to an analysis of data in Derwent World Patent Index, a database of enhanced patent documents.
Thomson Innovation, recognised by R&D Magazine as one of the top 100 most technologically significant products in 2008, integrates IP, scientific literature, business data and news with analytic, collaboration and alerting tools. Researchers, information professionals, attorneys and analysts can simultaneously search global patent data, Japanese and Asian patent sources, scientific literature, and business and news content. Such information is projected to help their organisation boost innovation, drive strategy, increase productivity and gain a competitive advantage.
Thomson Innovation is claimed to be the most complete resource for prior art and competitive intelligence research with comprehensive coverage of Asia-Pacific patent information in English, including Japanese full-text, Korean abstracts and editorially-enhanced abstracts of Chinese data; a fully-integrated, searchable patent database combining Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) editorially-enhanced records with full-text documents; the ability to search patents, scientific literature and business and news information simultaneously; support of strategic IP decision making through analysis and visualisation tools, such as charting, citation mapping and search result ranking; and enhanced collaboration capabilities, including customisable folder structures that enable users to organise, annotate, search and share relevant files.
