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Derwent World Patents
Index (DWPI) ̶
Monty's legacy
"...covers
more than 23 million inventions detailed in over 50 million patent
documents and is used by more than 40 patent offices worldwide"
Such
were the figures quoted in March 2013, at the 50th anniversary
of
the retrieval system that began it all.
Monty lived to see that anniversary (and seven months beyond). "Thomson
Reuters has built on my work to provide the world’s most
comprehensive and authoritative patent database,
and that is wonderful for a 95-year-old to know" he says in the anniversary press release |