Patent information in Ecuador:

Our services:
» Analysis and technology state.
» Patent Information search.
» Technological surveillance.
» Conformation of technological profiles.

Brief description of our services:

» Analysis and technology state.
This allows to considerer the real estate of specific technological field, turning easier the decision making process un the development of investigation or in the commercialization of products or technology. It is focused in giving an evolution of technique state before initiating the investigation or when a result is reached by surprise and is intended to be put in market.
Also, knowing evolutionary trends of patent owners, patent receptor countries, interesting markets for rights owner of patented technologies , is a significant and important tool for technology transference, agreements among foreign ventures based on transference of patented technologies and development of creative activities from patents of a specific technological field.

» Patent Information search.
This service offers patent sums of a determined technological field. Search strategy to get outstanding document related to the topic you want to know is achieved through the use of software, specifically designed for this purpose, the Patent international Classification, a suitable selection of key words and the use of data base.

» Technological surveillance.
This kind of service is offered mainly after having established development and investigation profiles or commercialization of strategies in a specific area. It is focused on the market monitoring, being patent data base the main source of information to apply strategies already designed to new demands and new potential competitors. This service is effective for defining commercial strategies especially in those cases when there are exclusive rights abroad. It is also essential at the moment of choosing possible partners to join in order to develop a certain branch or define possible technology providers.

» Conformation of technological profiles.
Information contained in documents of patents is characterized by being accessible and updated. Apart from being one of the most complete, useful and practical source of information. It is divided according to International Classification of Patents (ICP) which is an instrument to organize documents of patents in order to facilitate access to technological and legal information written on them. So, technological profiles constitute the way to disseminate selectively the information to clients interested in patent matters, help to elaborate industrial property statistics, favor the search of technique state in specific technological areas and also the analysis of technological development evolution in different fields.
If you have identified a competitor, a provider of technology, or a commercial partner to achieve a negotiation based on the characterization given by the analysis of International Classification of Patents, then it is possible to know the real technological competence of a specific organization through the conformation of the technological profile of the company.

About the Patents Information.

The consultation of patents information in Ecuador is not at the level of other countries, maybe in great stocking this is due nevertheless to the little innovative culture that exists in the country, we facilitate some information that can help to understand how useful can this type of information for investigators and managers:

The patents information is not more than the group the information contained in the documents that are generated around the process of protection of the inventions. The same are integrated by complete descriptions of the technical solution which consist on informations on the inventions, detailed to such an extent that any expert in the matter is able to take them to the practice. In a same way they contain abstracts on the essence of the inventions, the drawings or graph and the reivindications that determine the reach of the rights of the holder of the patent. This way in the patent document you can have technical information contained in the description of the invention and of legal information determined by the reach the reivindications and the temporary and territorial rights.

Inside the main advantage of the patents information is:

• present time: it is an extremely novel information on the most recent inventions in all the fields of the science and the technique.
• purity: to lack of all distortion with commercial ends and is limited to the real technical data of the invention.
• easy recovery: the use of the international classification of patents allows to obtain, in a brief space of time the necessary documents on a topic of interest.

The information contained in the documents of patents has many utilities:

• to determine the state of a branch of the technique.
• to create new inventions.
• to elaborate presage on the technical scientific development.
• to eliminate technical difficulties, for the setting in practice of inventions not registered in the country.
• to avoid to pay by non effective patents.
• to obtain information on the development of the competition.
• to know the market areas in advance in those are interested the competition.
• to know it must guide the industrial and commercial action to avoid risks of patent infraction in what address.
• to avoid the application of patents on existent inventions.
• to know about the rights in industrial property belonging to third.
• to evaluate the protection of a technical solution.
• to evaluate technologies and to identify possible licence.
• to locate technical knowledge in a specific field.
• to improve products and existent processes.
• to develop new products and processes.
• to select a specific technical problem.
• to be vigilant over the competitors.
• to study the market.

In turn their consultation allows to investigators and managers, to find in this information, quick and sure answers to basic questions as:

• to evaluate the problems of their organization, internal possibilities and threats of their competitive environment.
• to justify and to base certain takings of decisions.
• to propitiate the strategic change with the smallest risk.
• to obtain knowledge and the main competitors' abilities and the last tendencies.

Inside the main interested in this type of information they are: investigation-development institutions, authorities government, small and medium companies, educational institutions and the professionals in the field of the industrial property.

The real importance of the information of patents resides in:

• to be one from the biggest sources of technical information to world level.
• to disclose the utility of the technical solution and their possibilities of practical application.
• allows to determine the approach of novelty and of inventive activity to the invention applications.
• to contain data and novel ideas that stimulate the creative thought.
• to allow to know the companies competitors in a certain technological sector.
• to determine the tendencies of a specific technology and/or to arrive to presage in a certain technological sector.
• to allow the taking of decisions about the purchase or product sale or on a technology.
• to constitute a primordial resource in the process of technological transfer.

The main types of business in those that it is present the information of patents is:

• investment foreigners.
• transfers of technologies.
• investigation contracts and development.
• international sale and purchase of goods.