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Archived updates for Friday, July 09, 2004

EPO Seeking "Similarity Discovery Service" Software

According the European Patent Office's "International Open Invitation to Tender No.1099/2004/TP,
"A user of this service (a potential applicant for a patent) will be able to submit a technical text and receive a list of similar documents retrieved by an automatic comparison of this text with existing patent documentation at the European Patent Office."
In the meantime, for a manual "comparison" (also called a patent search), contact Bill Heinze
 
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