XPAT Patent Monitoring and Workflows
Patent monitoring as permanent monitoring of patents
In XPAT driving engines of patent monitoring are automatically running search profiles that search the patent databases worldwide week by week and transfer
the interesting and important documents into the own database without additional work by the user. I.e. this monitoring runs up to then completely
without further manual effort and supplies the own XPAT data base weekly with new writings from the range defined by the search profiles. Thus one
has in the enterprise only the documents, which have a minimum relevance in relation to the activities of the enterprise.
Check patents - patent circulation
Every company has highly qualified engineers who review patent specifications for their technical content. Such relevant documents are the source of many business and strategic decisions. For example, does protected foreign technology hinder the company's own planned developments, is "Freedom to Operate (FTO)" thus guaranteed? Are there documents that contain similar or even infringing information in comparison to one's own property rights? And often overlooked is the fact that one can also find suggestions through foreign ideas, which can favor or promote one's own inventions. These patent circulations take place automatically in XPAT.
Workflows
Internal search profiles access the new documents and the documents matching the profile are automatically stored in a worklist for the target persons. In XPAT, this is regulated by clear structures and automatisms ensure that the relevant information circulates in a targeted manner without anyone having to constantly look after it in detail. In this way, documents are assessed by the experts and all users benefit from this additional in-house information.
Competitor analysis
This makes XPAT the most suitable tool for technology monitoring and competition analysis, because you can call up statistics to see which competitions
are busy with which technology.
This closes the circle in the comprehensive XPAT workflow.
- External search profiles as starting point for patent monitoring
- Targeted distribution of relevant documents in the definable workflow
- Feedback of evaluated documents to the patent department
Legal status changes of patents or changes in patent families of competitors
Patent monitoring finds critical or at least relevant writings from the relevant business and technology environment. Here it is already possible
to recognize that applications which are currently harmless - because they have no protective effect - could be very disruptive if they are granted.
This makes it possible to start compiling opposition material at an early stage in order to be prepared in the event of a case.
In order to never miss the point in time when a document acquires legal force and protective effect as a granted patent or loses it again through
non-payment of any fees, there is an automatic legal status monitoring in XPAT. Interesting intellectual property rights are marked for legal status
monitoring and thus regularly monitored by the XPAT system for changes.
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