Endorsement
The landscaping activities of the Patent Lens have been endorsed by Dr. Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in March, 2009, in 'view of the shared objective of making patent information systems more comprehensive and accessible, and turning raw patent data into useful information resources so as to strengthen the empirical basis of international policy processes.'
Nature Biotechnology has called the Patent Lens 'a giant leap in the right direction' for providing researchers, technology transfer offices and company executives a facile means of establishing the novelty of their offerings and the nature of their competitors' inventions.
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