Thuringian Patent Network provides services to industry: Patent databases and delivery service in the Internet

The goal of the Thuringian Patent Network is to increase patenting producti vity through the consistent realization of the following chain of services: Inform - Advise - Promote - Patent - Commercialize. In this process, infor mational services, especially internet services (patent databases and a ful l-text patent delivery service) are made available to institutes: of higher education and industry. About 1000 companies gain a competitive edge by us ing PATON (Patent Information Center and Online Services) at the TU Ilmenau , especially the internet services. The patent databases Global-Pat (worldw ide), PAE (Europe), DE-T2 (German translations of European patent specifica tions), PAU (USA), PAJ (Japan), and PAR (Russia) are available to the indus try. They are connected with the full-text patent delivery service PATONlin e.