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New patent web databases to help UK business
The Intellectual Property Office has launched two new patents databases on its web site this weekend (17/18 January 2009). One contains all patents in force in the UK which are endorsed Licence of Right, and are therefore open for licensing. The other contains all UK patents which are no longer in force, and therefore contains inventions which are no longer protected here.
Both the new databases will help businesses identify opportunities they might otherwise not have found.
Sean Dennehey, Assistant Comptroller and Director of Patents, said "The introduction of these two new free databases, which were recommended in the Gowers Review, will we hope, give UK businesses ready access to good ideas and new opportunities."
The databases are based on the design of the successful E-Patents Journal available on the Intellectual Property website and will be updated weekly. Each provides a searchable sub-set of data from the Patents Register, and provides links back to the Register and to esp@cenet (which is the web database service for viewing patent specifications).
Editor Notes
* The introduction of the databases is as a consequence of recommendation 30a and 30b of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property http://www.ipo.gov.uk/policy-issues-gowersreport.htm
* The Intellectual Property Office web site address is http://www.ipo.gov.uk/
* The new databases can be found at http://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-dl-licenceofright.htm
* For enquiries about the Intellectual Property Office please contact James Thomson Tel: 020 75966 547.
