RD is the world’s longest running, independent, industry standard prior art disclosure service which has been distributed to every known patent office or national intellectual property authority, every month for over forty years. Consequently all patent authorities have become used to routinely searching it and continue to do so. As our clients are the top R&D companies, corporations and inventors in the world, the disclosure content consistently covers cutting edge technologies, the very technologies and inventions that patent examiners need to find. Our forty plus years of continuous publishing disclosures has built up arguably the most significant archive of non patent prior art in the world and as it goes back so far patent examiners regard it as a priceless resource.

From contacts in many patent offices we realised that the increased size of the Journal every month made the examiners job of searching it ever harder so we launched RD Electronic, an on-line database product with advanced full text searching capabilities.

This has been warmly welcomed by patent offices and authorities all over the world who now find their job of searching RD that much easier.

RD’s importance is well borne out by a recent search of just the USPTO’s US Patents Database which alone revealed that it has been cited some 14,000 times.