PROPIS - A patent intelligence service provided by P&TS Ltd.

Access the unique patent information that impacts your business

Access to highly qualified patent information: never has it been easier.

PROPIS (Professional Online Patent Information Service) is a web secured interface that makes it possible to access online a selected patent collection which concerns your business. Patent information i.e. patent documents them-selves plus all related information: the most value added information ever including P&TS expert comments and analysis.

A technology and patent survey tool

> Online access to your business dedicated search and survey results.

> Alert and direct access to new and updated publications each month via the journal on the first page of the interface and directly in your email box.

> Powerful search tool to retrieve previous publications filed and organized in the database.

> Number search and advanced search functionalities to access P&TS collections and alerts.

> Collection and selection from national and international databases, from more than 40 millions documents.

A time-saving solution for clear and structured information

> Clear and simple single web interface.

> One electronic format for the overall various dispersed information supports: visualization facilities at a glance to all the information related to one family, e.g. title, figures, mosaic viewing, abstracts and PDF full text.

> Single document for the full patent information related to one patent family.

> At least one classification associated to each document and to manually selected key-words.

A collaborative working tool

> Add your own comments.

> Administration mode and users management: share information within your company and create workgroups assigning to each user his own categories assigned.

> Control user's access to comments.

> Generate synthesis search reports in a click and 2 seconds.

For innovative companies

> R&D: use technical patent information for innovation and product development.

> Management: monitor competitors to optimize strategy decisions.

> Marketing: study competitor patents positioning to elaborate accurate market strategies.

> Investors: monitor sectors and companies, for the right investment decisions.

The context

The necessity of patent surveys for the sustainable growth of your company

A growing number of large and small companies increase their licensing revenues and deter competitors from entering their market with the threat of patent litigation.

All the more so since courts are becoming more favorable to patent assignees and tend to condemn infringers with an increased severity.

Indeed, patent infringement is not only expensive, it can also force you to abandon a business segment and may have a very negative impact on your company's image.

Identify as soon as possible patents of competitors that may be infringed by your current or future products and services.

Why a service providing the patent survey is needed: to eschew those difficulties encountered by numerous companies.

> Information over-flow.

Patent documents are indeed numerous, there are millions of patents dispersed in a dozen databases. The documents are lengthy and available in various formats...this increases the risk of missing the exact patent that may impact your business.

> Patent scope understanding.

Patent information is sometimes so obtuse that only patent experts are able to fully understand their scope. Even for simple searches, finding the requested information usually implies consulting dozens of patent databases (each with a different structure and query language) and calling various patent offices in order for example to check the legal status of the documents.

> Information analysis: the most difficult and resource-consuming task.

Gathering a set of relevant patents is only the easiest part of the job: analyzing their contents, marking the most important ones and understanding how they may affect a particular business is the most difficult and expensive aspect of any patent intelligence service. Even large companies usually consult external patent agents for this strategically important task.

P&TS, as one of the highly qualified Swiss patent law firms in the fields of IT and microtechnical technology, has also been providing and will continue to provide that kind of consultancy services.

Use the patent information at its full potential and be helped by a service that not only delivers professionally selected sets of relevant patent documents, but can also manage the flow of accompanying expertise reports and opinions about those patents.

The solution: PROPIS

> An information overflow managing tool.

 In many organizations, the value added by patent experts and users is spread in different letters, e-mails, due diligence reports and other electronic or paper documents. Much strategic business information is thus only insufficiently distributed to the developers, product managers and executives in the companies. This ineffective information management leads only too often to costs redundancies, wrong business decisions and avoidable infringement risks.

PROPIS offers a solution to these problems by providing tailored information.

> Storage and retrieval: a powerful intelligence tool.

The patent information i.e. the patent document itself plus all dispersed related information such as legal status, comments etc, is scattered in space and time, intervals, diversity of formats and supports.

PROPIS provides a solution making all the information available to you at the right place, at the right time.

> Value added information.

The manually selected patent information is analysed by P&TS experts. With a vast experience both in patent law and in the patent intelligence business, P&TS is your privileged partner for access to the right information.

PROPIS presents a solution allowing you to benefit from solid professional advice.

> Collaborative working tool.

Beyond optimizing access and use to patent information, the issue nowadays is focusing the information flow management inside the organization: optimizing the sharing of information, interconnecting the right people to the right information. Connecting comments and dispersed information to ideas and opinions, and bringing up that so called "knowledge" to turn it into new invention concepts and afterwards into concrete development stages of the inventions.

PROPIS is the solution for optimized information accessing and retrieving.

Make the right business decisions and avoid infringement risks. Save your time with the most value added information ever! Give your company a unique innovative edge!