Thomson Innovation Wins R&D 100 Award

Recognized in Top 100 Most Technologically Significant Products

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Scientific business
of Thomson Reuters today announced that it has received an R&D 100 Award for
its intellectual property research and analysis platform, Thomson
Innovation(SM) (www.thomsoninnovation.com). The R&D 100 Awards are presented
annually by R&D Magazine and recognize the 100 most technologically
significant products that have been introduced to the marketplace in the past
year.
"It is an honor to be recognized as an R&D 100 Award recipient," said
David Brown, Executive Vice President, Corporate Markets for the Scientific
business of Thomson Reuters. "As the new standard intellectual property
research and analysis, Thomson Innovation gives research professionals one
place to access the intelligent information they need to make strategic
business decisions and more fully capitalize on their IP assets."
Thomson Innovation was selected as an award winner for 2008 by an
independent judging panel because it is considered an important new product
that leapfrogs current technology, according to the editors of R&D Magazine.
It is an integrated research solution that enables the simultaneous searching
of editorially-enhanced patent information, scientific literature, business
data and news with analytic, collaboration and alerting tools. Thomson
Innovation also has the broadest English-language coverage of Asia-Pacific
patent information in the world, which is critical to support global research
and development activity.
Full details on this year's R&D 100 Award winners will be published in the
September issue of R&D Magazine.
About Thomson Reuters
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for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with
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makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and
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headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota,
Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. For more
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