IP Research: AOP Connect

Our leading-edge IP research platform provides you with transparency and efficiency while ensuring that your investment remains accessible long after the search concludes.

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The world’s leading IP research platform

AOP Connect is the leading intellectual property platform for organizing, storing and controlling the flow of references and ‘prior art’ related to IP searches. It supports both traditional and crowd-based searching, harnessing our in-house search team as well as our global network of more than 43,000 researchers from over 170 countries.

AOP Connect innovates the way businesses interact with their IP research, enriching the value of your studies and turning your research expense into a true research investment.

Fast, efficient, transparent and secure IP research

Centralizes your research efforts in one location	Provides you with access controls for in-house and outside counsel
Serves as a searchable repository of intellectual property assets	Automatically uploads search results in near real-time
Presents the best references matching your requirements quickly and efficiently	Online interface is easy to use, and reports are available in your format of choice
Helps you quickly assess and annotate references	Dedicated Study Manager is assigned to refine active studies

Efficiency

The ability to quickly sift through results to find only those that are the most relevant is a key attribute of AOP Connect. With researcher-level highlighting linked to the research requirements, you have a mini-claim chart, completely navigable within the document by simply clicking on the requirement, to quickly assess which documents deserve your time.

Transparency

When RWS performs research, you know exactly what is being done. AOP Connect provides insight into your research project, diversity of the results, as well as demographics such as education level, language and nationality of the researchers on your project.

Protecting your investment

While other research is delivered via PDFs that are soon lost to email and file systems, AOP Connect gives you secure long-term access to your research, quickly navigable through keyword searching and reference highlighting. You choose which formats and which parts of the data you want to filter and export. RWS turns your research expense into a research investment.

Transparency

With AOP Connect, you have a complete picture of your research project, from start to finish.

Efficiency

With AOP Connect, we filter and guide you to the references that are most relevant to your business needs and the directives that you choose. Researcher-level highlighting linked to the research requirements provides you with a mini-claim chart, completely navigable within the document by simply clicking on the requirement, to quickly assess which documents deserve your time.

Protecting your investment

Your research is a significant investment – can you access it later on when you need it? With AOP Connect, it’s always at your fingertips.

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We are RWS, the world leader in intellectual property services.

With rigorous search protocols certified to ISO 9001 and industry-leading, innovative technology, we are the preferred IP services partner for companies, law firms, licensing organizations and tech transfer offices worldwide. We also offer high-quality legal translation, foreign patent filing, research and database services. We have helped more than 10,000 clients protect and enforce their IP rights around the world and can do the same for you. Contact us for customized search proposals and details of other RWS search and information services.

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