PHILADELPHIA, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Content Provides Marketplace Context to Support Business Decisions

Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the addition of authoritative business and news content to Thomson Innovation(SM) (www.thomsoninnovation.com), the new standard in intellectual property research and analysis. Combining business and news information with comprehensive patent data and scientific literature, Thomson Innovation provides the most complete resource for prior art and competitive intelligence research.

"Conducting effective intellectual property research requires the perspective of world events and competitive activity," said David Brown, Executive Vice President, Corporate Markets for the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters. "By integrating timely financial and news information with editorially-enhanced global patents and scientific literature, we are giving organizations the up-to-date information they need to make business development and licensing decisions within the context of the fluid marketplace."

The extensive collection of business and news content in Thomson Innovation includes:

-- News - A comprehensive collection of more than 11,000 of the world's leading sources from the Dialog NewsRoom database. Researchers can use this news to closely monitor industry developments and information about new technologies and other strategic information. -- Product - Information about ownership of products and coverage of press releases relating to product launches and other relevant news to support product design and development, competitive analysis, marketing and business planning. -- Company - Business intelligence information allows organizations to monitor competitive activity in a particular industry. This company information can be used to view a corporation's family hierarchy or find the address and executive information for a particular business. -- Market - International market information for 90 industries published weekly, covering market share, rankings, forecasts, time series, shipments, and demographics information in a tabular format. -- Research - Detailed information on more than 30,000 organizations supporting and conducting research worldwide can be used to locate experts in a specific field of research, identify potential partners for cooperative research and identify potential marketing contacts.

The new business collections can each be searched independently or in conjunction with patent and scientific literature on Thomson Innovation. In addition, these collections share common functionality with other Thomson Innovation collections, such as alerts, work files and multi-color highlighting.

Thomson Innovation is an integrated research solution that combines intellectual property, scientific literature, and business data and news with analytic, collaboration and alerting tools in a robust platform to support global research and development activity. It is the first commercially available research solution that enables simultaneous searching of editorially-enhanced patent data, Asian patent data translated into English, scientific literature and business and news information.

For more information about Thomson Innovation, visit www.thomsoninnovation.com.

The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters provides information and knowledge to accelerate research, discovery and innovation. Our authoritative, accurate and timely information is essential for drug companies to discover new drugs and get them to market faster; researchers to find relevant papers and know what's newly published in their subject; and businesses to optimize their intellectual property and find competitive intelligence. We create the research platforms and services of the future that will power our customers toward business and personal success. Scientific information solutions can be found at scientific.thomsonreuters.com.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (Nasdaq: TRIN). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

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Kevin Bonsor, Marketing Communications Manager, Scientific, +1-919-461-7428, kevin.bonsor@thomsonreuters.com