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SparkIP Announces New Features and Content
ATLANTA --(Business Wire)-- SparkIP, an online intellectual property (IP) research and marketplace platform, today announced new product features, content, and subscription plans at the Licensing Executive Society annual conference in Orlando, FL. The new release of SparkIP offers many additional features for SparkIP subscribers including workflow management through portfolio sharing, enhanced search, patent family links, assignee history, IPC and national classification code profiling, and map printing. With this new release, SparkIP has also dramatically expanded its breadth and depth of data coverage, now indexing more than 50 million patent records in a visual map of over 70,000 SparkClusters(TM).
SparkIP now offers simplified plans for organizations seeking to post technologies to the marketplace or subscribe to the service. Corporations, universities and government labs can post available technologies to the SparkIP marketplace for free, without transaction fees or other charges. All new technology postings are exclusively available to the SparkIP subscriber network for the first 90 days and subsequently available to anyone visiting www.sparkip.com. In addition to the free marketplace, the company offers two subscription plans. The Technology Scout plan is designed to give individuals an advanced IP research tool with access to the latest available marketplace technologies. The Enterprise plan is designed to give multiple users within corporations, law firms, and other organizations access to the full suite of sophisticated IP research and marketplace features.
SparkIP supports subscribers in a variety of IP research tasks including patent analytics, white space analysis, R&D planning, freedom to operate searches, competitive intelligence, and technology scouting. Through the SparkIP unique visualization technology, researchers can move from text-based searches to contextual analysis, discovering non-obvious results often missed with other tools.
"Over the past 3 months, we have received great feedback from the early adopters of our service and have been able to incorporate much of their input into our new release," said Ed Trimble, SparkIP CEO. "We will continue to be aggressive in adding new features and content that further establish SparkIP as the leading IP research and marketplace platform."
About SparkIP
SparkIP is the world's leading intellectual property research and marketplace platform with over 50 million patent documents and 10,500 available technologies, all organized in an interactive visual landscape of more than 70,000 SparkClusters(TM). The private, Atlanta-based company was founded in October 2007 by engineering leaders Kristina M. Johnson, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at Johns Hopkins, Rob Clark, Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at University of Rochester, and Tim Lenoir, Kimberly Jenkins Chair in New Technology and Society at Duke University. The SparkIP team is led by Ed Trimble, former founder and CEO of EzGov, Inc.
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