FIZ PatMon

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.

Try out FIZ PatMon! Our Offer:

• Free 6-week trial
• You can create and monitor up to 50 alerts (“Cases“)
• You as requester can add up to 3 users (4 users in total).
• Monitoring results are sent by e-mail
• The trial period ends automatically – no cancellation required
• Free extra weeks if you order a license right at the end of the trial period: your user ids and the cases installed will be kept for you with the license period starting the following calendar month.
• Various user roles allow to closely adapt FIZ PatMon to your organization's workflow.

FIZ PatMon Trial Request

FIZ PatMon Access License

Access licenses are available on an annual basis for packages of monitoring cases.

Annual access license to FIZ PatMon for

For more than 100 cases, please contact our Helpdesk for an offer and provide details of your request.

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