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Philadelphia PA, USA-London, UK January 22, 2004 — Thomson Delphion has just made it possible for customers to get more complete search results and more thorough analysis of key European patent data. Through an extension of its partnership with CHI Research, Inc., Delphion has added European corporate hierarchy data to its existing US data, creating the only resource where this important information can be leveraged across patent collections.
Without corporate hierarchy data, assignee searching and analysis can be problematic because separate patent applications often use different forms of the company name, requiring users to identify all variations in order to get complete information. In addition, patent documents identify the assignee that owned the patent when it was granted, but companies merge, get acquired, spin off and change names. Patents can also be sold or transferred from one company to another. Delphion leverages corporate hierarchy data to standardize corporate names and incorporate merger and acquisition activity, making it possible for users to find all patents from a corporate entity, even when names are misspelled.
"The enhancement allows all Delphion customers to perform better assignee searching and analysis across more collections," said Bob Smith, Vice President of Product Management for Thomson Scientific. "Thomson Delphion is the only patent research resource that incorporates this information."
As a result of this enhancement, the Delphion coverage of corporate hierarchy data now includes the top 1,900 patent holders representing 45,000 separate entities.
Delphion Corporate Tree and Snapshot
Delphion leverages CHI Research's corporate hierarchy in two of its most popular features — Corporate Tree and Snapshot. Corporate Tree helps customers find US and European patents and applications by assignee name by helping end the confusion caused by mergers and acquisitions and the many different ways an assignee's name can be represented on a patent document.
Snapshot summarizes key elements of patent data and quickly creates easy-to-understand bar charts. Using corporate hierarchy data further qualified as Unified Company, Parent Company or Ultimate Company, summaries can easily be created by normalized corporate names enabling more meaningful assignee analysis.
About CHI Research, Inc.
CHI Research, Inc. is an internationally recognized research consultancy specializing in the development and analysis of technology, science and financial indicators. CHI's indicators are used by corporate and public clients throughout the world. For more information visit: www.chiresearch.com.
About Thomson and Thomson Delphion
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2002 revenues from continuing operations of $7.5 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, and scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 43,000 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto exchanges (NYSE:TOC; TSX: TOC).
As part of Thomson, Delphion is an Internet-based service for researching and analyzing patents and related intellectual property information on a worldwide basis. With Delphion, business professionals can search the world's top patent collections, including those of the U.S., Europe, Japan, and World Intellectual Property Organization; leverage unique productivity tools to analyze and track market developments and competitive activities; and view, download and print high-quality patent images.
Other Thomson Scientific businesses include: Derwent Information — the leading authority in patent and scientific information solutions, Current Drugs — a leader in the delivery of integrated information services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, ISI ResearchSoft — developer of the three most popular bibliographic software programs, Techstreet — a digital content delivery company that provides full-text industry standards and specifications and Wila-Derwent — supplier of information services in relation to patents, trademarks and industrial designs.
Rodney Yancey
Manager, Corporate Communications
Thomson Scientific
(215) 386-0100 extension 1396
rodney.yancey@thomson.com
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