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LexisNexis® TotalPatent™
Winner of the 2008 Software & Information Industry Association’s CODiE Award for “Best Online Science or Technology Service.”

LexisNexis® TotalPatent™, the world’s largest collection of searchable full-text and bibliographic patent information, winner of the 2008 Software & Information Industry Association’s CODiE Awards for “Best Online Science or Technology Service.”

Introduced in fall 2007, TotalPatent is a single online platform featuring the most complete and up-to-date national and international patent content available, including scientific and other prior art information. TotalPatent features access to the full text of 22 of the world’s major patent authorities – three times more than any other single provider – and offers the data in English as well as in the language of publication.

TotalPatent is the flagship offering of the LexisNexis Intellectual Property suite of products and services which includes PatentOptimizer™, Global IP Law Service, IP DataDirect–Patents, and exclusive analytical content on lexis.com®. Visit http://corporate.lexisnexis.com/totalpatent/ to learn more about TotalPatent. More information about the CODiE awards can be found http://siia.net/codies/2008/winners.asp.