TotalPatent™

Explosive growth and fast changes in the IP industry can make it difficult to stay fully informed. Now LexisNexis, a leading provider of information services and solutions, brings you TotalPatent™, a new research, retrieval and analysis solution designed with the broadest and deepest collection of patent-specific content available anywhere.

 
  • The right solution for a changing world. Stay on top of IP issues and laws in multiple jurisdictions.
  • Leave nothing to chance. Improve patent integrity and corporate confidence with three times more full-text patent sources than any other provider. Access 22 full-text databases—virtually all the major patent authorities around the globe—in order to view and search the claims that make an invention patentable.
  • Protect, develop, and maintain your IP assets. Improve the quality of your research and stay fully informed with easy access to the world's largest collection of searchable full-text and bibliographic information—with images, citations, legal status, and patent family collections all in one place.
  • Maximize IP asset revenue. Get the timely information you need to strengthen your patents and invalidate competitive threats for better business outcomes. And get more done, more efficiently to lower operational costs.
  • Understand your competitors and acquisition targets. Quickly understand what others are doing and make sound business decisions with a streamlined analysis process. Tap into expert commentary and proprietary analytical content from leading industry authorities such as Chisum on Patents and Milgrim on Licensing to sharpen your competitive edge.
  • Download the free LexisNexis Toolbar to enhance the speed and depth of your patent research. It can be used to immediately launch a search in other LexisNexis services for seamless access directly from TotalPatent to caselaw, non-patent prior art sources, current news, and other sources on lexis.com®.
  • Review claims in patents—often the most crucial element of a patent—from virtually all of the major patent authorities around the globe.
  • Stay updated on new technology and your competitors’ activities with alerting and profiling tools that monitor industry trends and developments.
  • Save time and improve your efficiency by accessing 50 million compressed, multi-page, searchable PDF documents.
  • Create powerful and precise searches with a wide range of searchable fields, coupled with choices of operators and wildcards.
  • Reduce results to one invention per family by grouping and sorting records by patent family.
  • Rely on expert commentary and proprietary analytical content from leading industry authorities such as Chisum on Patents, Milgrim on Licensing, and more.
  • Cover all your bases with a wide array of leading STM publishers, featuring Elsevier scientific and technical journals and now offering IP.com and Research Disclosure.
  • Search forms—for novices and experts—to help you with critical prior-art research, patent prosecution, researching infringements, identification of licensing opportunities, or R&D.
  • Retrieve specific documents quickly and easily by patent number.
  • Download fast with the ability to export patent data into Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheets, Microsoft® Word®, and other leading formats.
  • Customize user preferences, including multiple layout options for viewing results.
  • Integrate seamlessly into your workflow—TotalPatent easily complements other LexisNexis products, such as PatentOptimizer™, the Patent Research Tasks page, REEDFAX®, CourtLink®, and more.
  • Structure work folders—save, organize, annotate, and share personalized lists of patents.
  • Download in bulk by importing key bibliographic fields quickly.
  • Utilize analytics tools to create graphical maps and bar charts online, as well as allowing offline analysis of results with 3D graphs and charts.

Is TotalPatent™ a software download?
No. It is a service accessed via a link on lexis.com or at www.lexisnexis.com/ip/totalpatent.

What is TotalPatent™?/What are the benefits?

  • TotalPatent is the most comprehensive and relevant, easy-to-use, web-based patent research, analysis and retrieval system available.
  • The TotalPatent service gives users access to a comprehensive collection of patent materials through a single platform that combines first-level data coverage with user-friendly design and powerful search functionality.
  • Access to 22 full text authorities - 3 times more than anyone else offers.
  • A one stop search tool that assists with critical patent prior art research, patent prosecution, researching infringements, identification of licensing opportunities or R&D.
  • Ability to develop graphical analytic maps and bar charts online quickly, as well as allowing offline analysis of results with 3D graphs and charts.
  • Customizable options for each unique user to enhance flexibility and functionality.
  • Download patent data into Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheets, Word documents and other popular formats;
  • Integrates into the users workflow and complements other LexisNexis products such as the LexisNexis® Patent Research Tasks page, the REEDFAX® service, PatentOptimizer™, LexisNexis® CourtLink®, other content on Lexis.com and more.
  • Structure work folders—save, organize, annotate and share personalized lists of patents.
How is TotalPatent™ different from its competitors?
  • We offer more relevant intellectual property content than any other provider. 22 full-text authorities in one source - 5 million full-text records (not counting English translations) more than anyone else offers.
  • The TotalPatent™ service now includes the world’s most complete full-text source of granted patents – including searchable PDFs – issued by the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office, formerly the British Patent Office, from 1982 to current, making LexisNexis TotalPatent the only source for New Series pre-2002 GB grant full text and PDF images.
  • TotalPatent™ also has exclusive analytical content including the Elsevier Science Journals.
  • We worked in partnership with intellectual property experts to understand their patent research work and the content and tools they needed to get the job done, as we were creating the technology. We received their input on all areas and at all stages of product development - everything from the design of the web-based search to the retrieval options, thus ensuring TotalPatent was an efficient and effective tool.
  • TotalPatent™ provides access to the world's largest collection of searchable full-text and bibliographic patent databases—in the language of publication with English translations—including images, citations, legal status, and patent family collections.
How does it work?
TotalPatent™ allows users to group results into patent families, and to reduce the families to a single record per invention. The legal status is shown for every record in order that users can verify whether the patent remains in force or whether it has expired or been withdrawn, etc.

Who is using TotalPatent™?
TotalPatent™ was created for the patent professional such as patent attorneys, information professionals, researchers and engineers.

Why isn’t the new TotalPatent™ content available on lexis.com?
In order to best serve our lexis.com customers we felt it was important that we enabled lexis.com users to seamlessly access TotalPatent™. At the same time, we talked to patent professionals to understand their needs and determined that a different interface with different tools and features would better suit their patent searching needs. We believe customers now have a “best of both worlds” choice for performing their patent related research.

Is the search language the same as lexis.com?
TotalPatent™ is built on the lexis.com platform and, therefore, uses the same syntax, connectors, wildcards etc. as lexis.com. TotalPatent™ contains a context sensitive Help system to guide users new to using lexis.com.

Which authorities will have available English translations?
  • In the existing release, English language machine-translations are available for current documents published by several of the major authorities: EPO, WIPO, Germany and France.
  • Later in the year, the machine-translation backfiles for these authorities will be added to TotalPatent.
  • At the same time, machine-translations of the weekly updates and backfiles for the following collections will be added to TotalPatent: Austria, Belgium, Canada, (the former) East Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
  • This will bring the total number of patent authorities available to search in English language machine-translations to 16.

How much does TP cost?

  • TotalPatent™ is available on a subscription basis based on customer’s needs and usage. It is also available transactionally.
What are the system requirements?
TotalPatent™ is web-based and although no software installation is required, users will find having Adobe Reader and Flash necessary for viewing PDF documents or accessing the analytical charts. It supports all the major Web browsers.