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Lead-up to World Patents Index (1969-72) As well as correspondence held in the Hyams Archive at City University London, two accounts by Monty cover the ebb and flow of negotiations, sometimes colourfully. A few redactions having been made, these two documents can be found as multi-page PDF files in the ‘Downloads’ section of www.montyhyams,info, as follows:- Dealings with other patent offices; Cost of producing five year
database; Cost of production in 1973 as a current service;
Action/advice required of Thomsons. Written in approximately 1989, this reflects on relations in general before concentrating on the first call for proposals for a World Patents Index, and then negotiations during 1969-70 involving WIPO, Leasco, Pergamon and Derwent. Considerable financial and operational detail is included as well as some colourful memories of Robert Maxwell. |
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