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CPA (Computer Patent Annuities Limited
Partnership) was founded in 1969 and is now the world’s
leading intellectual property management specialist.
It has around 60,000 clients worldwide and performs
over 1 million patent and trademark renewals a year.
CPA’s portfolio of products and services
includes software systems, patent, design and trademark
renewals, trademark searching and watching, domain name
management, internet watching and patent analytics reports
and consulting.
CPA acts on behalf of corporations
and legal firms in 118 countries and has offices in
the UK, US, Australia, Canada, France and Germany, together
with representatives in Japan and Korea.
In 2005 it completed the acquisition
of Minneapolis based FoundationIP and took a controlling
stake in Minneapolis and India-based Intellevate.
CPA is owned by an international
group of patent and trademark attorneys and has approximately
1,000 staff worldwide.
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Q: HOW IS THE SYSTEM USED IN PRACTICE?
A: When data comes in from a client, usually via email,
it’s processed through Data Integrator and then handled by
the iSeries server. It’s a very flexible and fast way of controlling
the process of moving data from A to Z.
Some of CPA’s large clients have in excess of 50-100,000
patent and trademark cases and it is essential that their
data be transferred as quickly and cleanly as possible. The
most effective way to do this is electronically – and we are
up against some strong competition in our marketplace.
We currently have around 400 EDT clients who send data in
one of about 20 different formats. I developed a framework
and specific maps for several of the most popular formats.
These maps store the business rules for converting the client
formats into our format. Subsequently, our Systems Integration
Team, managed by Lorraine McKeegan, have mapped out how to
receive other formats, so we now have processes in place to
accept all the different data formats.
We take a batch of data, process it through the runtime component
of Data Integrator – this is the Integration Engine – and
spit it out. If it’s inbound data, we send it to the iSeries
server. If it’s outbound, we will zip the data up and send
it to the email handler, to be sent to the client. It’s like
a car production line.
Data Integrator processes millions of records, with over
1 million renewals processed this year alone. I would say
that 30-50% of amendments are now handled via the EDT system,
so Pervasive as an environment is handling a large number
of our renewals – it’s a pretty key part of the business.
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