Patent offices and commercial patent services: Partners or competitors?

Ursula Schoch-Grübler

World Patent Information, 1995, vol. 17, issue 2, 85-90

Abstract: For industrial users of patent information, the services of commercial value-added databases are extremely important for the first stage of a search to identify relevant documents, whilst in later stages the products and services of patent offices are vital. The article questions the policies of some patent offices in producing, both as CD-ROM and online, their own patent databases modelled on their own requirements, and in duplicating each others' work. It also questions the costs and royalties demanded by some offices for the use of their raw data for processing by commercial services, and the policy of producing products such as CD-ROMs at extremely low prices, undermining the viability of commercial services.

Date: 1995
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