Objective "Patents are the treasury of knowledge that drives the modern economies. The support of targeted search in this treasury has increasingly been topic of research. But search is just the first stage that provides the “raw” material that is to be analyzed, digested, assessed and summarized, depending on the concrete task of the user. Due to the wide-reaching consequences when a relevant patent remains undiscovered during search, patent search traditionally aims at high recall at the cost of lower precision, such that this raw material tends to contain many more irrelevant hits than in a general discourse search – with patent specialists reviewing mainly manually large quantities of patents in each phase of the search procedure. This is time consuming, expensive and often with a less than optimal outcome. TOPAS aims to bring to the market of IPR protection and management a new product that will provide high quality automatic means for content analysis and summarization of patent material, which will support the patent specialists in their daily work, leading to a much cheaper and better performance of the tasks. It will significantly contribute to the competitiveness of the work faced by any innovation-oriented company with an IPR agenda, and in particular, by the clients of the SME’s products: patent departments within companies, patent lawyers and innovators. The preparatory work for the development of the TOPAS technologies has been carried out in the FP6 project PATExpert, with the participation of three partners of the Consortium.The benefits will originate from the integration of functionality requested by clients for targeted and efficient IPR protection into the existing product lines SME’s, allowing for direct commercialization by SME’s together with their products already established at the market. The benefits will be fully passed on to the clients of the SMEs, who will be able to considerably reduce the time and costs they allocate to IPR protection." Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2011-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2011 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator BRUGMANN SOFTWARE GMBH Address Bokeler strasse 16-18 26871 Papenburg Germany See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Sören Brügmann (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all IALE TECNOLOGIA SL Spain EU contribution € 271 505,00 Address Calle balmes 48 08007 Barcelona See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Enric Escorsa (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INTELLISEMANTIC SRL Italy EU contribution € 301 639,00 Address Corso susa 299/a 10090 Rivoli See on map Region Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Alberto Ciaramella (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA Spain EU contribution € 7 840,00 Address Placa de la merce, 10-12 08002 Barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Eva Martin (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART Germany EU contribution € 7 840,00 Address Keplerstrasse 7 70174 Stuttgart See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart Stuttgart, Stadtkreis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Jonas Kuhn (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data
