"We are able to map and improve our patent information work processes with the competent support of infoApps"
Thomas Spernat Head of IP Heraeus Holding GmbH
The Heraeus technology group, based in Hanau, is a leading family-owned portfolio company. Heraeus bundles a large number of businesses in the fields of environment, energy, electronics, health, mobility and industrial applications.
>15.000 employees in 40 countries
>1.300 patent families with property rights worlwide
>220 core user in infoPatent
>170 search profiles
The Challenge
Global market Due to Heraeus global markets, the best possible global coverage was more than impotant for us.
R&D - Patent evaluation Heraeus has been looking for a long time permitting to include different experts in the workflow for the evluation of foreing patents.
Earliest data The challenge was the taking over of extesinve and important stocks of patent collections and assessments in various sources.
The Solution
High quality data The high quality of global and especially asian data through high quality machine translations fulfil the needs of Heraeus.
Assessment Different experts are able to give a context sensitive evaluation for foreing patents in inituitive an easy manner.
Data migration infoapps provided us an exellent support by transferinf our old data and maping our evaluations into the infoPatent system.