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2011
December

Monitoring All Patents Relevant to the Business
By Sarin Kouyoumdjian-Gurunlian, Press Manager, marcus evans, Summits Division

To ensure that the organisation's intellectual property (IP) is protected and that no patents are infringed, IP Counsel need to find and watch all of the patents relevant to the business, says Charles Besson, Chief Executive Officer, Questel. "IP assets are key to a company's success," he adds. From a sponsor company at the upcoming marcus evans IP Law European Summit 2012, in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 23 - 24 April, Besson talks about IP safeguarding and cost/valuation issues about patents....

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October

Defensive Publication: a key element in your IP strategy
Searcher Issue 130, October 11 - Page 19

What is it? Defensive Publication consists in publishing an invention to establish prior art, preventing others from patenting the idea. It is an additional tool to enrich an intellectual property strategy. Defensive Publications are generally a very cost effective alternative to patenting where application and maintenance fees can be substantial....

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September

Questel acquires Research Disclosure and becomes a major player in Defensive Publication

Paris - Washington - Tokyo - September 5th
Amico - GFII by Michel Vajou - September 6th

Questel, an online information service leader for over 40 years announced today the acquisition of Research Disclosure, subsidiary of Kenneth Mason Publication and historical player for «Defensive Publication».
«Defensive Publication consists in publishing an invention to establish a prior art preventing others from patenting the idea», explains Piers Mason CEO of KMP, «Questel appeared to us as the ideal buyer for the continuity of the service»...

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May

CKS And Questel Enter a Commercial Partnership of Orbit.com In Japan

Paris, France, and Tokyo, Japan, May 1st, 2011

Questel, a leader in online information service for over 40 years, and CKS (ChuoKogakuShuppan), a renowned patent information service in Asia, announced today the signing of an distribution agreement in Japan for selling Questel’s online IP service, orbit.com.
The partnership leverages Questel’s strategy to expand in Asia particularly in Japan, and empowers CKS’s broad sales and customer service experience.

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March

The Intellectual Property watching (FR)

Documentaliste - ADBS magazine - vol 48 n°2

Après avoir traité des fondements et enjeux liés à la veille pour l'innovation et avoir précisé quelques notions de base, en particulier sur l'innovation, après avoir examiné comment la veille se révèle un outil au service de l'innovation et envisagé les perspectives d'évolution, il restait à recueillir des informations sur ce que pensaient les utilisateurs sur le terrain, leurs témoignages sur ce qu'ils avaient experimentés...

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Questel at Online Information Asia Pacific (CN)

Chan Ka Yuen, Maggie - Hong Kong Economic Times Limited

   

January

From Roger Summit to Tom Cruise: TRADITIONAL ONLINE'S ADOPTION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Revue Bases - January 2011 - Traduction from an article of Mary Ellen Bates in the American revue Online.
Online - Sept/Oct 2010 - By Mary Ellen Bates

Recently, driving down a two-lane road in Wyoming late at night, I suddenly had a desperate craving for coffee, preferably from a Starbucks. What to do? I pulled over, opened my Droid, downloaded a Starbucks-finder app, and got a map directing me to the nearest store that was still open,
all within 30 seconds...

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Questel becomes a wholesaler on Patents information (FR)

GFII Newsletter by Michel Vajou - January 27th

Questel a annoncé hier la mise en place d'une nouvelle business-unit dédiée à l'offre, sous forme de licences d'usage, de flux d'information brevets enrichis ("value-added patent data feeds ») à des coûts très compétitifs. Ces flux de données (mais le stock - 60 millions de brevets issus de 95 offices est aussi mobilisable) seront distribués à partir de la plate-forme www.orbit.com.

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Questel announces the creation of a new "Patent Data Licensing" Business Unit

Paris - Washington - Tokyo - January 25th

Questel is pleased to announce that it will offer to the market the unrivalled content of its orbit.com platform and start supplying high value-added patent data feeds at an affordable cost.

Key features include:

    • Over 60 Million patents compiled from 95 offices
    • A fully customizable patent data feed: biblio, abstracts, full text, translations, clipped images,       facsimile
    • Customers can pick and mix and only pay for what they need
    • All data is normalised in XML ST.36

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Fusions-acquisitions dans l'industrie de l'information : 2010 année de rebond (FR)

GFII Newsletter by Michel Vajou - January 6th

L'information : Selon les données publiées le 3 janvier par la banque d'affaires new-yorkaise The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI, www.jegi.com) le volume global des opérations de fusions-acquisition dans le secteur des médias (hors audiovisuel) s'est élevé à 43,3 milliards de dollars dont 14,5 Md. $ relèvent de l'industrie de l'information B-to-B (lire la Dépêche du GFII d'hier). Une analyse plus poussée de 59 opérations de M&A (Margers & Acquisition) identifiées dans les communiqués de presse 2010 de 14 groupes de l'industrie de l'information livre des indications plus qualitatives.

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