Concept for a Multinational Patent Search using Elements of Blockchain Technology

Autor:	Stefan Marschall
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Blockchain Knowledge management business.industry Multinational corporation Business Patent search
Zdroj:	GRUR International. 69:225-232
ISSN:	2632-8550 2632-8623
DOI:	10.1093/grurint/ikaa014
Popis:	Blockchain Elements Integrated Multinational Search (BEIMS) is a response to an ongoing discussion about the search and examination procedures employed in patent offices, relaunched in 2018 when German law firms sent an open letter to the President of the European Patent Office. The BEIMS concept turns away from patent examiners working by themselves in isolation, and instead involves experts from different offices working in close co-operation. BEIMS integrates elements of Blockchain Technology – such as decentralized network, competition and consensus building – with the participation of several national and/or regional patent offices, and involves financial incentives. The co-operating patent offices are coequal and, as a consequence, a multinational search report is generated with cited prior art determined and evaluated by patent examiners of different patent offices in due time.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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