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From: "Jacek Gancarson" <jacek.gancarson@chello.se>
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Subject: Alarm: SMEs do not search patent databases!
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:36:43 +0100
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European companies are failing to exploit patent information, finds EPO
report
http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&
RCN=EN_RCN_ID:21167

*****

SMEs need intensive testing of their ideas and scientific feedback and of
course a single coin for own development works if they are worth that, but
searching patents information has no value until they are coming up with own
patents! Searching patent information in the databases spare a lot of time
during patent preparation. This statistic only shows that SMEs do not need
to search the EPOs databases because they can not afford offensive and
defensive patenting, which is an overdriven stile of last 10 years, in which
even biggest companies have become to feel uncomfortable now.

EPO's statistics report makes sense, but they fail to interpret the results
correctly (an adjustment is required;-)).

Best regards
Jacek Gancarson
www.eu3d.com



