Creating and managing a patent information group in a global environment

Donna Kaye Wilson

World Patent Information, 2007, vol. 29, issue 2, 136-139

Abstract: The article describes the key aspects of setting up and managing a global team of patent information scientists (GLIST) to work primarily with patent attorneys in a multinational pharmaceutical company. The main features identified for this team included: - the flexibility to deal with searches efficiently, worldwide, within the team; - close interaction between the information scientists and the attorneys, in partnership; - managers of the team also carry out some searches themselves; - sufficient language expertise within the team to carry out most translations in-house; - good training and mentoring procedures, allied to a strong team ethic; - a final product of each search which is a value-added search report, delivered in a timely manner, using a standardized GLIST-branded template.

Keywords: GLIST; Global; team; Patent; information; Information; scientists; Multinational; pharmaceutical; Flexibility; Working; managers; Translations; in-house; Training; Mentoring; Team; ethic; Value-added; Search; report; Timely; delivery; Report; template (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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