INCOM IPS GmbH, Bonn offers a new alert service in the field of Patent Information. This service allows for a quick cross reference of all patent publications held under key national Patent Offices (US, JP, DU, AU, GB, FR, etc.), the European Patent Office, as well as the World Intellectual Property Organisation, regarding specific patent citations. Subscribers are automatically notified by email, when an interest-related patent number is published. Using the online option of PatCitation allows for timely, practical checks and enables the user to follow a selection of more than 65 Million citation links.

Patents that are related by citations are of special interest because these inventions are often similar. INCOM informs monthly and makes possible to analyse these patents under legal and economical aspects and to develop patent strategies in companies.

	to identify similarities of inventions as indicated by citation relations
	to assess the value of a patent (more citations often indicates higher value)
	to assist in finding buisiness partners to expedite marketing
	to identify companies that make good licensing candidates
	to develop stategies for licensing
	to identify alternative technologies
	to gather competitive intelligence
	to assist in preparing patent infringement litigation
	to challenge examiners decisions

Each month, new publications released by the above-said offices are checked for subject patent citations. An exhaustive report is then produced for the patent document under observation by exploring its entire backward, forward and collateral citation relations. Options for sorting and viewing the information allow for efficient, perspective-specific analyses. The source of citation as  by examiners, applicants or in case of opposition is visible. In addition, the citation relations of citing and cited patents may be checked as well, and the service is able to supply a bibliography of Non-Patent Literature. All bibliographic data, the complete documents, as well as members of the family and their legal status are accessible online and with the alert service customers are kept updated via e-mail notifications.

Creating a User Account for PatCitation Monitor: 100 EUR*

Monthly Monitoring run:     1 -   10 documents: 7,50 EUR* per document

                                      11 -  50 documents: 6,50 EUR* per document

                                      51 - 100 documents: 5,00 EUR* per document

                                         > 100 documents: negotiable

- Database: EP, WO, US, DE, JP und weitere. A detailed list is available here

- Preise gelten für eine kolaterale Überwachung (citations and its citing documents, as well as citing documents and its citations)

- Monitoring can be extended to more citation levels optionally (+ 1,00 EUR*/document and level)

- One change per profile** between monitor runs is without a charge, every additional change will be charged with 10,00 EUR*.

- Every additional profile*** will be charged with 10,00 EUR*.

- Interval of monitoring: Monthly

- Minimum term: One (1) year subscription with three (3) month cancellation period.

Please click here to look at an example of an interactive result report. You can find an example including description here.

For more information and a free trial, please call +49 228 9797770, or send an email with the keyword PatCitationMonitor to info.ips(at)INCOM.de, or have a look at www.PATWARE.de.

* all prices are excluding 16% VAT

** you can add new or delete patent numbers in your profile

*** if more than one person should get the Monitoring result, you don't need an additional User Account, but we can create a second User Profile