Tech Monitor Services

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• Tech Monitor Services

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• Description of the service
• Techmonitor is an annual service that delivers
  to a client a monthly document with the selection
  of all the new patents just issued on a global
  scale, on a specific topic of his interest.
• Each patent file has a title, an abstract
  describing the innovation, the name of the
  inventor, the name of the company that holds the
  IP, in English language. Further information is
  available upon request.
• Each monthly report has a variable number of
  patents, typically from few units up to a dozen
  of new patents, depending on the actual number of
  patents that have globally been issued in that
  month, in that specific topic..
• Each monthly report includes patents that have
  just been issued, not more than 30 days before
  the delivery of the report, describing inventions
  just in the specific sector required by the
  client each report is delivered electronically,
  either to the ELP member (that will forward it to
  the client) or directly to the end user, with the
  ELP member in cc.

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• Example of a single patent file
• November 20, 2007
• Double-hung window with uniform wood interior
• Abstract
• A double-hung window having a uniform interior
  wood appearance is disclosed. The window has a
  head jamb and side jambs. The window has an upper
  and lower sash, each having a wood frame. The
  upper and lower sashes are held in the window by
  the side jambs. Lock-pins are extendable from
  each side of the lower sash. A concealed jamb
  liner cover for selective engagement with each
  upper side jamb is provided which has an exposed
  wood surface and a channel for receiving the
  lock-pin of the lower sash. An upper sash lock
  housing attached to an upper portion of the wood
  frame of the upper sash, is provided which holds
  an upper sash lock-pin for each side of the upper
  sash. A wooden interior upper parting stop
  connected to the head jamb conceals the upper
  sash lock housing when the window is closed.
• Inventors
• McCabe Jerome J. (Wausau, WI), DeLonay Jeffrey
  A. (Wausau, WI), Digman George H. (Weston, WI)
• Assignee
• Kolbe Kolbe Millwork Co., Inc. (Wausau, WI)
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Benefits for ELP clients

• When the client is a company, the benefits
  provided by the constant access to the most
  recent IP are the following
• Constant feeding of the engineers brains with a
  continuous flow of new ideas coming from
  competitors or research organizations, always
  with inventions strictly related to their work
• Information about the moves and the strategies of
  competitors, frequently with an advantage of
  years each patent describes a technology at RD
  stage, years before than when it is for the
  first time launched in a new product.
• Information about innovation coming from academic
  research, that can be easily acquired by the
  Techmonitor client and not by its competitors who
  are not using the service.
• Information about brilliant engineers who may be
  hired by the client company

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Typical Clients

• SMEs, not necessarily high tech companies
• Bigger industrial groups, (but big pharmaceutical
  companies already have internal services like
  tech monitor)
• Associations of entrepreneurs with enough member
  specialized in a specific sector,
• Consulting companies, etc.

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Production and sales

• Tech Monitor is the name of the service but it is
  also the name of a company producing it,
  established in Italy, based in Verona, founded by
  Marco Baccanti and other shareholders around six
  years ago.
• The company has dedicated trained personnel
  specialized just in scouting information on IP
  data bases and in the report preparation. All
  the major w/w intellectual property databases are
  accessible to Techmonitor experts.
• The specific industrial or technological sector
  is not critical for Techmonitor experts, whose
  skill is in scouting and selecting IP information
  independently on its topic.
• Once a new contract with a client is generated
  through an ELP member, all the related monthly
  reports will be produced and delivered
  electronically either to him, or to him and the
  final client, according to ELP members request.
• Up to 3 free monthly reports may be offered to a
  potential client before the signature of the
  order, just to allow him to experience all the
  benefits of the service (or to make him addicted
  to it).
• Once the contract is signed and paid, the service
  starts and lasts for another 12 months, with 12
  monthly reports.

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Cost of Tech Monitor service

• The price for an annual service of Techmonitor,
  in a single technological topic, is 3600 /year.
  New technologies scanned and introduced once a
  month (VAT not included, if applicable).