Subscription Options

The availability of Thomson Innovation features to individual users is determined by subscription level and content access.

Your subscription level (Express or Professional) determines the features and tools available.  

Content set and collection access is determined by the contract under which you/your company purchased Thomson Innovation.  All content sets and collections can be made available to both Express and Professional subscription levels -- core patent data is included in all subscriptions.

Find out more about

• Content Sets/Collections

• Express and Professional Levels

Content Sets/Collections

• Core Patent Data

• Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) Enhanced Patent Data

• Asia-Pacific Patent Data

• Scientific Literature

• Inspec®

• Business

Core Patent Data

This is the core patent content set included in all Thomson Innovation subscriptions.  It includes the following first-level patent content:

• Full text from

• US Applications and Grants

• European Applications and Grants (EP A & EP B)

• WIPO Applications (WO)

• German Applications (DE A), Grants (DE C), and Utility Models (DE U)

• French Applications (FR A)

• British Applications (GB A)

• English translations of abstracts from Japanese Application & Grants (JP A & JP B) and Korean Applications & Grants (KR A & KR B)

• Bibliographic data and some abstracts from 71 authorities covered by INPADOC

• INPADOC legal status data, US reassignment, and EP post-issuance data

• DWPI titles displayed on result sets and record views (but not searchable)

Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) Enhanced Patent Data

The DWPI enhanced patent data offering provides coverage of 41 authorities and over 15 million separate inventions.  This enhanced patent data is integrated with first-level patent content. 

Asia-Pacific Patent Data

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) patent collection package consists of machine-assisted translations of the full text of Japanese Applications & Grants (JP A & JP B) (also referred to as JP-MAT).  This machine-assisted translated material is integrated with first-level JP A & JP B patent content already in English.

Scientific Literature

The Thomson Innovation scientific literature offering consists of:

• Web of Science with retrospective searching of scientific literature including:

• Science Citation Index Expanded, 1987 – present; author abstracts available from 1991 forward

• Social Sciences Citation Index, 1987 – present; author abstracts available from 1992 forward

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1987 – present; author abstracts available from 2000 forward

• Current Contents Connect - bibliographic information from over 8,000 leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books

• ISI Proceedings, 1990-present - covers over 4 million papers from over 60,000 conferences, includes both the Science & Technology and Social Science & Humanities editions

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Inspec

Inspec is the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) bibliographic database and is offered as a separate scientific literature package.  The full backfile is available (back to 1898).

Business

The Thomson Innovation scientific business information offering consists of five collections:

• Company - Essential details about company ownership, location, trading activities, multiple year financial information, and annual reports  from Thomson Gale Group Company Information®

• Market - Article and report summaries covering many aspects of industry and economic indicators from Thomson Gale TableBase

• News - Retrospective coverage of market, company, product, and industry news from Dialog NewsRoom

• Product - Information about ownership of products and coverage of press releases relating to product launches and other product-related news from Thomson Gale TableBase

• Research - Summaries of the type of research conducted; summary of affiliated government agencies for research organizations and universities; directories of funding groups and organizations from Gale Group Research Centers and Services Directory

Express and Professional Levels

Thomson Innovation offers two subscription levels to accommodate the needs of different types of users.

The Professional level provides full functionality of all features in Thomson Innovation.

The Express level provides a simplified interface with more limited features and functionality.

Subscription level does not imply access to, or restriction from, any of the content on Thomson Innovation.  Content access/restriction is part of the initial contract and not a function of the subscription level (see Content Sets/Collections above).

Whether you have a Professional or Express subscription, you can still customize your working environment using the options you find in Preferences (in the left navigation panel).

The following table details the differences between the Express and Professional subscription levels.