Our team of expert patent and scientific information searchers - based in Thomson
Scientific's Alexandria office - offers the following skills and experience:
| Donald Walter |
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| Ph.D., Chemistry, Yale University |
| Over 18 years of patent searching experience. Specialises in performing
chemical patent searches. Expert in searching chemical patents for polymers,
pharmaceuticals, other chemicals, petroleum and energy-related areas.
Also, expert in other chemical and patent database indexing systems and
searching of technical literature. |
| John Myers |
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| M.S. Organic Chemistry, University of Richmond, Virginia |
| Over 27 years of patent searching experience. Specialises in performing
chemical and pharmaceutical patent and literature searches. Expert in
Derwent patent and technical literature indexing. Also, expert in genetic
sequence searching and other chemical, patent, and medical/pharmaceutical
literature database indexing systems. |
| Irene Catania |
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| B.A., University of South Carolina |
| Over 18 years of patent information and searching experience. Performs
General/Mechanical/Electrical patent searches, competitive intelligence
and citation searches. Skilled in use of International Patent Classification,
US Patent Classification and Derwent Manual Codes. Also, experienced in
trademark, literature and manual patent searching. |
| Eleanor Ford |
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| Over 17 years of patent information and searching experience. Performs
general and mechanical patent searches. Skilled in the use of International
Patent Classification and US Patent Classification systems. |
| Deborah J. Hansell Ph.D |
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| B.A. (Hons) Biochemistry, Jesus College, Oxford University;
Ph.D Clinical Medicine, St. Catherines’s College, Oxford University |
| Over 9 years of patent searching experience specializing
in validity, novelty, clearance, patentability, infringement and right-to-use
searches in biotechnology and chemistry. Also, has experience conducting
genetic sequence, and mechanical/engineering searches. |
| Mark Bauer |
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| B.A. Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania |
| Over 6 years of patent searching experience. Specialises
in performing pharmaceutical patent and literature searches. Expert in
citation and competitor analysis. Also expert in Derwent Classification
and Derwent Manual Codes. |
| Jonathan W. Grant |
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| B.S. Physical Science, Morgan State University |
| Over 5 years of patent searching experience and 14 years of specialised
searching in Aerospace and Electrical engineering literature and technical
databases. Experience also includes 3 years of searching in the Electrical
and Software Art Units at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. |
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