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CHICAGO — June 4, 2001 — Delphion Inc., a leading provider of intellectual asset management software and services, today launched two new service packages for Delphion Research, located at www.delphion.com. The service packages, called Delphion Premier and Delphion Unlimited, provide business professionals with:
Starting immediately, Delphion Research users can search the full text of U.S. patent applications to gain insight into companies' patenting activities before patents are granted. This information can be used to identify patent licensing opportunities, track competitors' actions, and find and qualify acquisition targets.
- access to all major worldwide full-text patent collections, as well as prior art resources and premier patent information databases such as those from Derwent and INPADOC;
- powerful and exclusive tools that simplify and accelerate patent research for both novice and expert searchers;
- the ability to lower the overall cost of intellectual property research while providing unlimited access across organizations to critical IP information; and
- a proven technical infrastructure that supports more than 125,000 users and 25 million hits each week, and can easily serve thousands of users within a company.
The new service packages are the first to address the growing need for business professionals to gain complete information about the patents that impact their markets. Patent information can help business professionals make decisions about buying or building technologies, perform due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, identify revenue-generating licensing opportunities, and monitor competitor activities.
"While there is a tremendous and growing need among business professionals to access patent information, there have been no resources available until now to help them overcome the complexity and high costs of intellectual property research," said Woody Ritchey, president and CEO of Delphion. "Delphion addresses this need, offering an unprecedented combination of power, ease of use, and cost efficiency. It enables companies to empower a broader spectrum of its employees with patent information, while allowing IP specialists to focus on mission-critical projects."
The new Delphion Premier and Delphion Unlimited service packages enable users to select the level of service that best meets their functionality and cost requirements. Delphion Premier lets users perform searches of the world's top patent databases, while providing access to many other functions on a pay-per-use basis. Delphion Unlimited provides everything that Delphion Premier does, plus unlimited use of nearly all features, including free PDF downloads and email alerts.
With subscription rates starting at $75 per month, Delphion's new service packages set a new pricing standard in a market in which competitive services often exceed several thousand dollars annually.
The pioneering solution for Internet-based IP research, Delphion Research is an easy-to-use solution for researching, analyzing and exploring patents and related information. Key features of Delphion Research include:
- Delphion Integrated View — an exclusive feature that enables users to view not only data from original patent documents, but also all the related information that gives users greater business insight. This includes information about a patent's global family, legal status actions, prior art references and assignee's business.
- Cross Collection Searching — enables users to search any or all of the world's top full-text patent collections at one time, including U.S. patents, European patents and applications (EP A&B), and the World Intellectual Property Organization's Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patents; plus abstracts from Japan and INPADOC
- Derwent World Patents Index — considered by many to be the world's most important value-added patent database, the Derwent WPI provides clear, concise patent abstracts that business users can easily understand
- INPADOC — enables users to quickly find all the countries in which a particular patent has been granted, and review a patent's legal activity
- Prior Art — provides users with the ability to simply and quickly identify and link to patents and published materials relating to intellectual property
- Code Browsing — allows users to focus their search results by browsing and searching against classification hierarchies, including international patent classifications, U.S. class and Derwent class
- Licensing — enables buyers to browse the world's largest inventory of patents available for license, and sellers to leverage Delphion's enormous, targeted audience to attract potential licensees or buyers
- Saved Searches — enables users to quickly conduct the same search again later, avoiding the task of repeatedly constructing the same queries
- Alerts — provides users with automatic updates by email to effectively monitor industry trends, patent developments and competitive activities
The Delphion Premier and Delphion Unlimited service packages are available immediately. Delphion Premier is $75 per month, per user; and Delphion Unlimited is $150 per month, per user. Delphion also offers special corporate and group subscription rates.
Delphion Inc. provides intellectual asset management software and services. The company's solutions empower intellectual property (IP) and business professionals to research, manage and leverage IP assets to explore new business opportunities and generate new revenue and profits. In 2000, the company was spun out of IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and funded by Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE). Delphion's solutions are based on technologies originally developed by IBM, the world leader in IP management. Delphion is based in the Chicago suburb of Lisle, Ill., and has additional offices in San Jose, Calif., and The Netherlands. The company's main phone number is 630-799-0600, and its website address is www.delphion.com.
Rich Dobinski
Public Relations Manager
Delphion Inc.
630-799-0630
rdobinski@delphion.com
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