PriorArtDatabase.com is the free Web-index of documents published to IP.com's Prior Art Database. IP.com's Prior Art Database is a unique collection of technical disclosure (defensive publication) documents. Dislcosures published with IP.com for the Prior Art Database become part of the online database, as well as appear in The IP.com Journal, the monthly printed publication of technical disclosures sent to libraries and patent offices worldwide.

The IP.com Prior Art Database is a unique database dedicated to the publication of technical disclosure documents. The IP.com Prior Art Database contains content that cannot be found anywhere else, and is an essential source of non-patent prior art data for intellectual property professionals, research and development (R&D) staff, corporate library staff, and individual inventors wishing to research prior art. The IP.com Prior Art Database is home to a wide array of technical disclosures from many Fortune 500 companies. While many publish anonymously to prevent competitive intelligence, you will also find many disclosures published with full authorship information from innovative companies such as IBM, Motorola, and Siemens. The IP.com Prior Art Database is also the exclusive location for new IBM-TDB (Technical Disclosure Bulletin) documents on the Web.

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