IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/worpat/v32y2010i4p279-286.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Quality assurance in the EPO Patent Information Resource

Author

Listed:
  • Albrecht, Miguel A.
  • Bosma, Rex
  • van Dinter, Trudy
  • Ernst, Jean-Luc
  • van Ginkel, Koen
  • Versloot-Spoelstra, Fenny

Abstract

In increasingly competitive global markets, access to consistent and dependable information on innovation is becoming more and more indispensable. This article describes the efforts performed at the EPO to create and maintain reliable master databases of prior-art information. Data standardisation and patent family rules applied at the EPO are described in detail and how master databases support the workflow of examiners. The authors discuss the benefits that the EPO, its partners and the community at large obtain from these activities. Finally, a look at what lies ahead reveals exciting potential developments for the near and mid-term future.

Suggested Citation

  • Albrecht, Miguel A. & Bosma, Rex & van Dinter, Trudy & Ernst, Jean-Luc & van Ginkel, Koen & Versloot-Spoelstra, Fenny, 2010. "Quality assurance in the EPO Patent Information Resource," World Patent Information, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 279-286, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:worpat:v:32:y:2010:i:4:p:279-286
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0172-2190(09)00096-9
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jurriën Bakker, 2017. "The log-linear relation between patent citations and patent value," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 110(2), pages 879-892, February.
    2. Jurriën Bakker & Dennis Verhoeven & Lin Zhang & Bart Van Looy, 2016. "Patent citation indicators: One size fits all?," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 106(1), pages 187-211, January.
    3. Kok, Holmer & Faems, Dries & de Faria, Pedro, 2020. "Ties that matter: The impact of alliance partner knowledge recombination novelty on knowledge utilization in R&D alliances," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(7).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:worpat:v:32:y:2010:i:4:p:279-286. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/654/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.