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Competitor monitoring
By using patent information you can at an early stage keep track of the R&D, new technology or market plans of your competitors. When you want to monitor new inventions of your competitors, or their patent applications to see how they are progressing, our information searches and monitoring services will keep you up-to-date.
Name search - This search will give you information about the patent applications or patents of a company or an inventor in Finland or abroad. You can use the search to learn more about the technology patented by competitors or to find out the names of the key inventors.
Patent family search - When you file a patent application for the same invention in several countries, the patent applications and patents in these countries are together called a patent family. The search will show you in which countries patent protection has been sought for the invention. We may also add information about the status, i.e. have the applications been granted a patent and are the patents still valid.
International monitoring of competitors - Regular monitoring of new technologies keeps your competitor information up-to-date. This service gives you information about the field of technology in which your competitors are filing new patent applications in various countries, or about the persons or businesses filing new patent applications in a particular technical field. We carry out this search by using international patent databases.
Monitoring of domestic patent applications - In this service, we monitor the progress of a patent application at our office to see if it is granted a patent, and when an opposition can be filed against it. By filing an opposition you may try to revoke a patent that is detrimental to your business, or to limit the scope of protection of the patent. By using this service you can monitor patent applications which are being processed at our office.