Overview

 Research Disclosure

 Why disclose?

 Why leading companies
 use RD


 Why patent offices
 worldwide use RD


 PCT Minimum  Documentation status

 Full text searching

 World's longest running  disclosure service

 Verification & date stamping

 Patentability & validity  search tool



 
World's longest running disclosure service

RD, which first started publishing disclosures in the late 1950s, has become the world’s longest running disclosure service because the companies that publish with us know that they can rely on their disclosures being found by the patent authorities and that they can rely on our monthly publication date in any litigation. Other disclosure services have started up against us but none as yet has lasted for more than a few years.
In the main our competitors have failed because patent examiners were not aware of them and did not, or could not, find their products to search on.
 
Needless to say those that have failed are no longer, or rarely, searched on by patent examiners. An inventor should be wary of publishing disclosures with a newly established service where there can be no guarantee that it will be searched now or still be searched in years to come. In short we are the examiners’ preferred service to search.
© Kenneth Mason Publications Ltd 2003