The survey shows how patent information contributes to each phase of the innovation process.

The main findings of the survey show that 70% of the innovators who took part in the survey use patent information as a source of information while 72% of them rate patent information as important or very important for their innovation work.

At the same time, 75% of respondents use EPO products including Espacenet, followed by DPMA/DEPATISnet 30%, USPTO 21% and WIPO/PATENTSCOPE 17%.

In addition, the findings show that patent information is predominantly used as a source of technical and legal information but lags behind with business information.