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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Mr. Rolf Claessen Presents New Tool For Monitoring EPO Patent Data.

Recent issue 02/2007 of

EPO Patent Information News disseminated by EPO brings an article about one of

Dr. Rolf Claessen's recent projects:

"[...] The term 'Web 2.0 is rapidly becoming a standard expression to describe the phenomenon where internet users take an active role in adding and maintaining information on the internet. Wikipedia is perhaps the best example of a Web 2.0 internet site.

Some patent-related sites are emerging based on the Web 2.0 philosophy. IPNewsflash (http://pct.ipnewsflash.com/index.php) is an IP meta-information portal that presents IP information data from various information channels. The Tools section (http://pct.ipnewsflash.com/fresh_pubs.php) includes an interesting beta version of a tool presenting EP publication data in a graphical way. It also offers RSS feeds based on IPC classes. In addition to an overall view of EP publications, there are views showing IPC class distribution and main applicants.

Selecting an IPC class lists the 'fresh' publications. Fulltext or PDF data is available from esp@cenet, and there are links to the EPO's Register Plus for procedural and file status data. [...]"

Well, I don't think that this tool really belongs to that what the buzzword "Web 2.0" means because of it lacks something like a community but nevertheless I think that this project shows the beta stage of some very promising web application for monitoring patent data by means of RSS feeds. It is definitively worth to have a try.

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