Research Disclosure now accepts disclosures electronically, has introduced a volume discount scheme, and also offers full text on-line searches
Research Disclosure announces that it now accepts disclosures electronically, has introduced a volume discount scheme and also offers full text on-line searches via both its own website and STN's new Rdisclosure database.
With the launch of the RD Electronic on-line database, which contains nearly 45 years of full text archived data, users can instantly perform searches via the intuitive new researchdisclosure.com website.
Electronic disclosing Research Disclosure now accepts original digital files, either as an attachment to an e-mail or as an FTP upload. This is described as a very useful step forward as up to now inventors or their agents have had to provide its New York office with a paper copy of the intended disclosure by mail for reproduction in the RD Journal.
The advantages of electronic disclosing are several.
Price: publication in both the RD Journal and RD Electronic database costs the same as it did previously for the RD Journal only.
RD has also introduced a new system of volume discounts and says it is fully confident that it remain the most competitive worldwide disclosure service.
Date control: the discloser can now control the publication date by opting for the paper and electronic publication to be published simultaneously; for maximum defence the electronic publication can be timed to coincide with that of the paper publication.
The electronic publication to precede the paper publication and so establish virtually instantaneous prior art in the public domain. Simplicity and speed: a finalised document can be simply e-mailed.
Increased quality: legibility in the RD Journal and ability to provide a more accurate search are enhanced by using a first generation electronic file as opposed to paper scanning as all OCR errors are eliminated.
Research Disclosure is now able to accept all the most commonly used document formats.
RD Electronic Research Disclosure also announces public access to its sophisticated full text on-line database, RD Electronic.
Welcomed wholeheartedly by the world's patent offices, the launch of RD Electronic provides users with enhanced retrieval capabilities, never before available for the entire Research Disclosure content.
Industrial patent searchers, legal firms and individual inventors wishing to locate prior art will all find RD Electronic a major step forward in convenient information access, says RD.
The current release of RD Electronic provides full-text searching of all disclosures back to 1960, with one-click access to PDFs of both text and non-text material such as mathematical or chemical formulae and electronic diagrams.
