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Patent databases contain an enormous amount of technical and other information. By early 1997, the European Patent Office (EPO) had published or granted over 850,000 patents, while the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) had published several million patents.
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Arundel, A. (1999). How Useful are Patent Databases to SMEs as a Source of Technical Information?. In: Inzelt, A., Hilton, J. (eds) Technology Transfer: From Invention to Innovation. NATO ASI Series, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9145-4_14
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