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- MissionHelping our clients to succeed in the modern knowledge-based economy
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- Offices28 offices around the globe, local expertise and global reach
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- HistoryMore than 20 acquisitions during the past 6 years, strategic partnerships and product launches
- Offices28 offices around the globe, local expertise and global reach
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Data Scope
Intellectual property : we offer over 250 patent, design and trademark authorities in bibliographic form, 60 patent authorities in full text with translations that allow English language searching across the entire database.
Non Patent Literature (NPL) : 50 scientific document types from 50 000 journals and reviews, clinical trials, grants and business information.
You can also get direct access to Questel’s data repository and functionalities through iOrbit, our powerful API.
125 million publications.
110 patent-issuing authorities.
96 million patents.
66 million patent families.
65 patent authorities in full text.
Patent classification codes: IPC, CPC, ECLA, USPCL and Japanese FI & F‑Term.
Proprietary normalized technology domains and sub-domains.
Patent and non-patent citation reports with relevancy indicators.
Normalized technical concepts.
High resolution patent drawings in mosaics.
Key content:
Flexible record structure:
Patent Evaluation Metrics:
Updated daily
Updated daily
New published molecules detected weekly
Updated weekly
Updated weekly
Updated daily
150 million publications from 50.000+ journals and reviews
50+ document types: articles, conferences, thesis, books, posters, grey literature, reports, etc.
Main data sources: Crossref, PubMed, DOAJ, Arxiv, Pascal-Francis,…+ 200 targeted archives and university repositories
Multisectorial: Life sciences, Computer sciences, Chemicals, Environment, Engineering, Physics, Materials, Telco, Earth Sciences, etc.
322 000 clinical trials (interventional and observational studies from clinicaltrials.gov)
260 000 grants and collaborative projects (H2020, FP7, SBIR, STTR, etc.)
Updated bi-monthly
536 000 patents with licensing information:
- Licensing interest
- Licensed
- available for licensing, or sale
206 000 patents declared licensed.
196 000 patents declared available for licensing.
30 000 registered licensing agreements in full text.
1 340 agreements with royalty rates.
Updated weekly
155 000 patents declared essential to the following standards: ETSI, IETF, IEEE, IEC, ITU, ISO, OMA, ANSI, ATIS, TIA.
119 000 European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
1400 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
620 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
1740 International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
1820 International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
340 International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
660 Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).
260 American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
180 Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS).
70 Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).
Updated weekly
Legal status is available for 60 patent-issuing authorities, 118 trademark registers and 64 design registers.
For patents, most of the information comes from the EPO “Legal Status” database also known as PRS (Patent Register Service) which covers events occurring during the patent cycle and may affect the legal status of published applications or granted patents.
However for crucial authorities such China and US legal status is directly obtained from their local patent office.
Normalized searchable legal events:
Complete indexing (for searching) of:
US register (USPAIR)
FDA’s Orange Book (including Complementary Protection Certificates)
US Official Gazette
Inter-Partes Reviews (IPR)
Updated weekly
Updated bi-monthly
292 000 funding rounds listed. (70% of seed funding rounds).
100 000 acquisitions listed.
17 000 business events listed.
600 000 executives, entrepreneurs and investors.
20 000 qualified and categorized business and innovation web sources:
25 000 new articles every day.
15 million articles.
Updated daily