Bureau van Dijk Offers Information on Patent Holders and Patents

Posted by Joachim Bartels | Feb 3, 2012 | Belgium, Bureau van Dijk, Business Information, Uncategorized | 0 |

Bureau van Dijk offers subscribers of its database product ORBIS additional data on patents held by corporations. The database is comprised of data on 6.5 million patents held by 585,000 companies. The source of the data is the PATSTAT – database of the European Patent Office.

Source: Password Germany

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