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Much of the value offered by IP search services is helping customers to identify the most relevant data sources, without getting distracted by the irrelevant. But this can come at a cost. Urs Dommann and Ashutosh Pande explain the searcher’s dilemma.
If you could clone the ‘perfect searcher’, what kind of personality, experience and profile would you specify to optimize patent search quality? Urs Dommann reflects on the human factors of knowledge management, and how machines fill the inevitable gaps.
Is it possible to deliver a perfect IP and R&D search, i.e., a novelty or validity search that finds 100% of the relevant documents? Urs Dommann tells the story of seeing it achieved and explains why the method can’t be repeated.
The Head of Evalueserve’s IPR&D business Urs Dommann launches our Information Adventurers blog with a fundamental and provocative question. What constitutes a good IP and R&D search or intelligence?
High-volume tasks like docketing can become overwhelming, meaning work on patent analytics and designing new services can suffer. BASF’s IP group has decided to work with Evalueserve. Why does outsourcing such sensitive work require a lot of trust?