FIZ PatMon – the Patent Monitoring Service

FIZ PatMon supports everyone who is engaged in the patent life cycle.

FIZ Karlsruhe’s user-friendly information service comes with comprehensive features to make patent monitoring an automatic process adapted to the workflow of professionals from business, legal and R&D.

Responsible professionals, IP managers, technology consultants, information specialists, patent attorneys, engineers or scientists, benefit from FIZ Karlsruhe’s powerful and efficient patent monitoring tool to track patent portfolios. FIZ PatMon alerts reliably about specified changes in national or international patent families.

Our customers decide which changes in the patent status shall trigger an alert. With FIZ PatMon’s user-friendly menu-driven interface they can either monitor all changes for a patent family or define distinctive relevant events.

Apply FIZ PatMon to observe

• patent applications throughout the grant procedure
• changes to the validity of own or competitor patents
• competitor patents and their applications in other countries
• oppositions or withdrawals of relevant patents
• grants in certain countries

FIZ PatMon is based on current data of the European Patent Office’s INPADOC database and FIZ Karlsruhe’s patent family information. The database spans over patenting offices from more than 60 countries. The high quality of these patent data is obtained by enhancements and standardizations made by FIZ Karlsruhe. There is a large variety of broad and distinct patent monitoring options. Monitoring profiles are kept strictly confidential. Various user roles enable flexible embedding of FIZ PatMon in your organisation’s workflow.

For more details see this information sheet or the video tutorials.

FIZ PatMon is automatically included in the STN IP Protection Suite.

To request IDs, get support or to receive an offer to increase the number of included cases please contact customer support.

• Directly to FIZ PatMon
• FIZ Search Service – FIZ PatMon Alerts
• Introduction to FIZ PatMon (video tutorials)
• FIZ PatMon information sheet