Landon IP Enhances Ability to Meet Customer Research Needs with Launch of Reference Desk

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Landon IP, Inc., the leading single-source provider for professional patent-related services, is excited to announce the formal launch of its Reference Desk, which centralizes our knowledge of the best manual and electronic sources for conducting prior art searches of global technical literature.

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Landon IP's CEO, David Hunt, says, "Landon IP has always provided excellent service to our legal and corporate customers based on our in-depth expertise in patent and non-patent literature searching and intellectual property research and document retrieval.  With the establishment of our Reference Desk, we are ensuring that our customers continue to benefit from the best research capabilities available anywhere."

The Reference Desk will be led by Kristin Whitman, Landon IP's professional librarian and a senior contributor to Intellogist® and the Intellogist Blog. The establishment of the Reference Desk will facilitate the delivery of the highest-quality research support to our customers by providing internal access to a team focused on:

• Digging deeper and further on critical patent search and information retrieval projects
• Consulting more -- and more obscure -- patent and non-patent literature sources
• Ensuring that Landon IP's search analysts are aware of, and appropriately using, cutting-edge search tools and best practices
• Providing centralized knowledge management and electronic resource management

According to Librarian Kristin Whitman, "Our customers won't be working directly with the Reference Desk at Landon IP, but they will benefit every day from our behind-the-scenes support of Landon IP's global patent searching, non-patent literature searching, and information retrieval projects.  We are committed to leading the industry in conducting the most thorough, comprehensive searches possible to find the documents our customers need."

To learn more about Landon IP's capabilities throughout the patent lifecycle, please visit our website at www.landon-ip.com.

About Landon IP, Inc.

Landon IP is the leading global provider of professional support services throughout the patent lifecycle. The company has met the critical needs of the IP world since 1949. The services provided to Landon IP customers include patent searching; non-patent literature searching; in-depth technical analysis; global information retrieval; and patent, legal, and technical translations. The company is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, a few blocks from the offices of the USPTO, with additional offices in Southfield, Michigan; Sacramento, California; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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