NOVEMBER 2007
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Innovation in India India has one of the longest established intellectual property systems in the Asia Pacific region, with roots that can be traced back over 150 years. Despite this, India has been a relatively quiet contributor to global innovation until recently, when several initiatives have been taken to create a healthy environment for inventiveness and business creativity. FULL STORY> |
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Confessions of a user - are you the New Face of Research? Every 1.5 seconds a unique user logs onto ISI Web of KnowledgeSM to take advantage of the premier scholarly data available within, as well as free access to EndNote Web. At newfaceofresearch.com you can watch your peers talk about how they use ISI Web of Knowledge and what it has helped them achieve. FULL STORY> |
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Transforming intellectual property in China and Taiwan Internal domestic requirements have inspired plans for a third round of amendments to China's patent laws — in certain areas such as industrial design these could advance intellectual property (IP) law even further than in some developed countries. Meanwhile Taiwan is emphasizing product differentiation among electronics, materials and chemicals, metals and machinery — and focusing on cutting edge nanotechnology. FULL STORY> |
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Leading strategic information initiatives In a business environment characterized by constant change and fiercely competitive global markets. information professionals can succeed by displaying imagination, pragmatism, innovation, flexibility and most importantly, a strategic perspective. FULL STORY> |
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Protecting and managing well-known trademarks Well-known international trademarks such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM and Google surpass the boundary of marks known only in single countries. It is now generally accepted that these well-known marks should be given protection against later registration by third parties — although laws to offer this protection are still being developed. With the right people, processes and technology, well-known marks can be managed to protect the investment in them, and to add strategic and economic value to an organization. FULL STORY> |
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Generating novel insights in biology for the pharmaceutical industry In this interview, first published in vol 2, issue 2 of Next Generation Pharmaceutical Europe (October 2007), Thomson Scientific's Jon Brett Harris discusses the company's vision for bioinformatics. FULL STORY> |
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New products contribute just 16 per cent of total pharmaceutical revenues Unique research findings from The Centre for Medicines Research (CMR) International Ltd, a Thomson business, suggest that the revenue derived from new products (those launched within the last five years) accounted for just 16 per cent of total revenue in 2006, continuing the industry's potential exposure to patent expiry. FULL STORY> |
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The all-database search in the new ISI Web of Knowledge Do you ever view a multi-database search with skepticism, because you think your search terms can't possibly match the many proprietary vocabularies of each individual database? The new ISI Web of Knowledge SM overcomes this obstacle with its unique approach to the multi-database search. ISI Web of Knowledge has created one common vocabulary that recognizes the varying terms used by different databases and maps them to a unified subject classification. FULL STORY> |
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Tragic earthquake yields rich science The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake was the largest seismic event on Earth in four decades and produced the most destructive tsunami in history. The scale of the human tragedy has overshadowed a huge leap forward in our understanding of great earthquakes. FULL STORY> |