Making your mind up

In the first in a three-part series, Jan-Willem Goedmakers and Ilona Medaer set out the different elements toconsider when evaluating what might be the best patent search database to use

Jan-Willem Goedmakers and Ilona Medaer, Stamicarbon

In contrast to the late 1990s when only twosuppliers of patent search databases existed, nowadays there are many suppliersproviding access to patent search databases making the choice more difficult.