PEORIA, Arizona--The Anaheim Group, publishers of the Dentalfax dental industry newsletter, has announced launch of Patentfax worldwide dental patent download service.
The service is a way to monitor worldwide dental patents. The Patentfax service provides a list of each month’s dental patents (United States Patent Office, European Patent Office [EPO], and World Intellectual Property Organization [WIPO]) with the click of a mouse.
Each month, an Internet link is sent via email to subscribers of the Patentfax service. By clicking on the link, subscribers can download a Word document containing the list of patents, as well as two folders.
One folder contains the U.S. patents as PDF files, and a second that contains the EPO and WIPO patents. The international patents are written in the native language of the inventor/assignee and in English.
Patent infringement is one of the major reasons for litigation in the dental industry. One way to defend existing patents is to have a compendium of patent data and then monitor new activity month-by-month. Research and development departments in the industry could find this service of value.
In order to accumulate and compile this monthly data, a company would have to spend several thousand dollars a year on subscription databases, as well as expend dozens of hours of staff time; however, for $300 per year Patentfax subscribers have access to this information on an ongoing basis.
For more information send an email to [email protected] or visit www.dentalfax.com.
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