Thomson Reuters Provides Insight Into Emerging Market Innovation With New DWPI Files

NEW YORK and LONDON, Aug. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters announced the addition of patent records from the patent-issuing authorities of Poland, Hong Kong and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a regional office registering patents from member states, which include the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, State of Qatar, State of Bahrain, State of Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Sultanate of Oman, to its Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI) database. This comprehensive collection of editorially enhanced patent documents from 47 global issuing authorities also includes English language abstracts and titles, making it easier for researchers to quickly find the information they need to make informed decisions regarding protected technologies in these key global markets.

"The inclusion of Poland, Hong Kong and the Gulf Cooperation Council further enhances the extensive value-added patent and English language coverage on which our customers have come to rely with DWPI," said Rob Adams, Thomson Reuters senior director of product management. "As providers of the world's most trusted source of patent data, used by 36 patent offices globally, we recognize the importance of these emerging markets and the vital roles they play in the future of innovation."

New coverage in DWPI includes:

• Polish patent applications, granted patents and utility models published from January 2011  
• Hong Kong patent applications, granted patents and short-term patents published from January 2011
• GCC-granted patents published from 2004

Patent and literature citations are part of the Derwent Patents Citation Index, a companion file to DWPI.

The inclusion of these authorities in DWPI improves the effectiveness of technology monitoring, prior art research, and freedom-to-operate searching through the English-language content and intellectually applied indexing for these new regions.

For more information on DWPI and its patent collections, go to http://ip.thomsonreuters.com/dwpi.

About Derwent World Patents Index

Created in 1963, the Thomson Reuters DWPI database enables professionals to more easily research and understand the world's innovations through editorially enhanced English-language abstracting and indexing of patent documents from 47 patent issuing authorities globally, including patent data from Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America. DWPI contains more than 20 million unique inventions covering 45.2 million individual patents and is used globally by thousands of organizations and 36 patent offices, making it the world's most trusted and authoritative patent database.

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