On 1 August 1994 started by the Technical University of Dresden the inventors promotion. The aim of this initiative is to the scientists of TU Dresden by material and moral implementation of their ideas in Intellecual property rights to support and in this way the innovative potential of the TU Dresden for commercial exploitation and development company making available.

The Patent Information Center supports the entire process of research, from idea to realization

Generation of research topics

• World-Wide searches for the state of art and the newness of the idea
• Analysis of research fields on appropriate, non-contaminated property rights topics

Active research phase

• Identification of new property rights in defined cycles
• Market monitoring
• Observation of competitors

Recovery phase

• Registration of own property rights
• Identification of Copyright infringement

Services of the Patent Information Center for TUD staff

• Information on property rights (patents, trademarks, utility models and designs)
• Support for a search planning
• Development of search strategies Conducting searches -> PDF-Form 
• Supply of comercially databases  for Independent searches
• Assistance for independent execution of searches in the patent information center
• Inventor advice by a patent attorney
  
• Implementation of the course: "Der Weg zu erfolgreichen Schutzrechtsanmeldungen"

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