Patent document onile patent

Patent document onile patent
Patent documents as sources of technical information Each year, more than one million patent documents are published, based on around half a million inventions. Investigations have shown that only a small proportion of inventions are described in other sources in addition to their appearance in the patent literature. This is why patent information is such an indispensable means of acquiring knowledge on the state of the art, and why it is so important for innovation processes. Unfortunately, the double nature of a patent document (i.e. the fact that it is both a technical document and a legal document) is frequently perceived as hindering the accessibility of its contents.