Study and comparison of the unique selling propositions (USPs) of free-to-use multinational patent search systems

World Patent Information

Volumn 52, Issue , 2018, Pages 9-16

  Jürgens, Björn ^a   Clarke, Nigel ^b  

^a Environmental and Water Agency of Andalusia   (Spain)

^b Asian patent information Department   (Austria)

Author keywords

Comparison; Free of charge; Open access; Patent database; Unique selling propositions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044642727     PISSN: 01722190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wpi.2018.01.001     Document Type: Article

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