When it comes to managing and tracking IP, the stakes are high. A misrepresented right or inaccurate filing can cost your company or client millions of dollars. Infringement awards can reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Any public disclosure of a new technology or process before patent filing can invalidate the patent outright. And valuable time and money are often wasted prosecuting patents that don't stand up to patent office review.

Thomson Innovation helps you minimize the risks associated with IP. Its advanced search tools let you thoroughly screen the patent and technology literature - enabling you to protect your own IP assets, ensure that you're not infringing on existing patents and better assess an invention's novelty, before you file.

Strategic Needs

• Track all your IP rights and invention disclosures
• Ensure compliance with rules and regulations
• Monitor competitors' filings to spot infringements and other threats
• Determine if an invention is already in the public domain
• Survey the state of the art worldwide to determine novelty
• Create distinctive claims
• Avoid costly infringement liability

Solutions from Thomson Innovation

• Ensure that you are not infringing on existing patents by searching first and second level patent data along with scientific literature, business information and news.
• Protect your own patents by monitoring applications and relevant product developments easily with detailed indexing.
• Instantly determine the geographic extent and legal status of existing patents instantly by clicking on pertinent fields and checking status reports.
• Receive automatic notification when patents expire or when new patents related to your business are granted.
• Don't wait until competitor's patents are filed - Leverage Thomson's comprehensive non-patent data to monitor research and development activity of competitors and industry leaders before patents are filed.