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German Press Release
Lisle, IL USA — Philadelphia, PA USA, September 9, 2003 — Today, Thomson Delphion announced that it now offers searching of full-text patent specifications from the German national collection. With main claims back to 1968, this is the most comprehensive set of German patent data available. The collection includes applications, granted patents, and utility models.
The integration of German data from INPADOC with the German national collection data, and the presentation of both on the unique Delphion Integrated View, allows users to see legal status and family data in the same view as they see the text, claims, and other bibliographic information. The German national collection is also fully integrated into the Delphion workflow including:
- Full text German language searching
- Integration into the cross-collection searching process
- Inclusion in analytical and productivity tool functionality
In addition, left-hand wildcard searching is supported, making searching for compound words quick and easy.
"The integration of German patent data with the worldwide collections already available on Delphion is important to the German research community. In addition, same day access to German patents is important to users in highly-competitive fields, including high-tech, pharmaceutical, and engineering," said Michael Lipp, Senior Vice President, Industrial Property Markets for Thomson Scientific. "This makes Delphion the premier source for original patent data, as well as value-added data from the Derwent World Patents Index® and leading analytical and productivity tools."
This enhancement to Delphion is another example of the benefits resulting from the Thomson Scientific integration of Delphion and Wila-Derwent into its portfolio of patent products.
About Thomson and Thomson Delphion
The Thomson Corporation, with 2002 revenues of $7.8 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, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges (TSX: TOC; NYSE: 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.
Rodney Yancey
Manager, Corporate Communications
Thomson Scientific
(215) 386-0100 extension 1396
rodney.yancey@isinet.com
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