In recent years, there has been a much greater awareness of the important role that patents play in legal, technology and business environments, with high profile patent battles between technology giants playing out in the courts (and the media) on a regular basis. As well as monitoring any infringement on a corporation’s novel ideas, knowing and studying global patent data is also an effective tool to avoid parallel developments and wasted R&D efforts in overcrowded research fields. With this in mind, Minesoft has designed a suite of patent information products and a global, searchable patent database. Users can easily search, review, analyse and share patent information across a corporation; effectively harness the knowledge found in patents, gain competitive intelligence and build on the ideas of others to drive innovation forward in all technology areas. Today, we will be looking at the patent landscape for avalanche rescue technology. More…