Introduction
The Industrial Property, at the same time protects the rights of trademarks and other distinctive signs and inventions, among others, it is generating a wealth of information available in public databases whose content is not exploited to the maximum by the sector business. The dynamics of the institutions generating goods and services do not give it the importance that the subject requires and they debate day by day in solving specific tasks and work operationally, when the ideal would be to do it prospectively and using all the available information that they have. to do with the fundamental activity of the company.
There are entities where innovators wear themselves out to find the solution to an existing problem, and it has happened, on countless occasions, that the solution is contained in a patent document that has already been made public. It also happens that information is sought but not in the right place, that is, the subject-specific databases are not accessed.
We cannot only see the information in this branch referring to patent documents, since that referring to trademarks is important as well. When a company wants to identify any of its products under a certain sign, it is essential to carry out a previous search and find out if there is no interference with the one that is intended to be registered in order to avoid third-party litigation and unnecessary budget spending.
Development
It is a reality that in our globalized world information is growing at an accelerated pace and developing countries are facing more and more problems to position their products on the world market where competition is uneven with respect to developed countries. That is why industrial property information is a strategic weapon when you do not have many financial resources.
If a patent document is analyzed, it can be seen that it contains the necessary legal, commercial and technical information, for example, who is the owner, the “age” of the technology by the filing date, the country of location and how Technical information can generally be accessed through the summary, description, claims and drawings, which taken together are sufficient to carry out the invention. As can be seen, an important part of the technology is disclosed in this type of document, of which more than 90 percent are in the public domain.
When referring to the information of trademarks and other distinctive signs, the same thing happens since if an interference search is carried out with respect to a sign that the company is interested in registering, it would save time and money since the information provided by said search allows knowing if phonetically or figuratively the sign interferes with others already registered and this would avoid litigation and unnecessary budget spending, it also ensures that when the period of examination of the mark passes, it would have more possibilities of being granted.
As can be seen from these two edges, the consultation of industrial property information constitutes a strength for any company and it would be useful to involve it with the rest of the activities in its management. The preparation of specialists in this regard would be a very successful action since it would have personnel capable of assuming the entity's demands for information and giving accurate answers in each case.
Conclusions
In general, the consultation of industrial property is a strategic action within any company, thereby allowing the use of those that others have already invented, as well as avoiding the infringement of the rights of third parties, all of which can be useful in its management. It would then be up to the decision-makers to give it the priority it requires and guarantee the necessary means so that the activity flows within the entity, forming an inseparable part of it.
