� About the Award

In many areas of sciences and the arts there are awards acknowledging the significant achievements of individuals and their service towards the advancement of their fields. Prior to the year 2000, no such award existed in the field of patent information and related disciplines. However, there were many individuals who, through their ideas, hard work, dedication, and personal leadership, had made a significant positive impact on the profession as well as the patent and scientific community as a whole.

The ‘International Patent Information Award’ or ‘IPI-Award’ was therefore established and has been presented on an annual basis since the year 2000. The Award is aimed at recognizing individual contributions towards the advancement of patent information and related disciplines, and to the patent information world in general. Users of patent information and producers of patent information are equally eligible to be nominated for the Award.

The Award, established and sponsored by Technology & Patent Research (TPR) International, consists of a plaque and an honorarium of $3000 or other currency equivalent.

Nominations for the IPI-Award are gathered from the patent community for submission to an International Selection Board. The Board is responsible for evaluating the nominations and for selecting the recipient each year.

In addition to honoring the individual recipients, the purpose of the IPI-Award is to illuminate the importance of patent information in support of the increasingly fast-paced developments in technology. In the coming years, the IPI-Award-winners’ list will grow to become a patent information industry ‘Hall of Fame’, with each name representing a milestone in the evolution of patents information worldwide.

Questions about the IPI-Award may be directed to the Award organizers at the International Patent Information (IPI) Organisation. Click here for contact details.

Sponsor, TPR International, provides patent searching and information services to multi-national R&D based corporations (specifically their Information Centers, Research, Business Development, Licensing and Patent Departments) as well as to patent law firms, and smaller, growing companies such as new biotech and high-tech ventures.

TPR International specializes in maintaining global connections for in-depth searching of both patent and non-patent literature. Searches are carried out utilizing indexed and full text databases, as well as via manual searching of collections at patent depositories and libraries worldwide, e.g. throughout Europe, US and Japan. The searches cover from state-of-the-art to patentability, validity, freedom-to-operate/infringement and patent watch services. For more information visit http://www.tprinternational.com/, or contact TPR at searches@TPRInternational.com

Technology & Patent Research (TPR) International, Inc., is an InfoGlobal company – click here for more details on the InfoGlobal family.

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