Integration of public patent libraries into existing SME advisory structures, and the resulting new range of services

Andreas Kurt

World Patent Information, 2000, vol. 22, issue 4, 333-335

Abstract: This article describes the new contact arrangements that have been made with selected partners since the Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property closed all patent documentation centers in 1999. All of the partners have an existing range of services available to SMEs and/or universities in non-patent consultancy areas. A contractual relationship, similar to a franchising arrangement, has been set up with the partners, the Institute taking responsibility for basic and further training on intellectual property issues, for hardware and software, and for marketing, while the partners are required to provide an advisory service and mediate in search requests. New products linking patent data and market data, developed by the Institute, are also described. These products provide more comprehensive answers to clients' strategic questions than in the past. An ever-increasing number of standardised modules are being combined to form simple service packages, each of which independently supplies the basis for deciding on a strategic problem. The very simple structure of these service packages makes it possible to integrate intellectual property seamlessly into other SME-oriented advisory services.

Keywords: Partnership; Internet; Training; SME; Service; modules; Integrated; patent; and; business; servies; Pro-active; services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0172-2190(00)00072-7
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:worpat:v:22:y:2000:i:4:p:333-335

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/regional
http://www.elsevier. ... _01_ooc_1&version=01

Access Statistics for this article

World Patent Information is currently edited by Michael Blackman

More articles in World Patent Information from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().