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Article: Questel-Orbit Focuses on Intellectual Property Gold; Will Shut Down Orbit.
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- Information Today
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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Barbara Quint, co-editor with Paula J. Hane for NewsBreaks, is editor in chief of Searcher: the Magazine for Database Professionals, a columnist for Information Today, and a longtime online searcher. Her e-mail is equint@netcom.
Over the next year and a half, Questel-Orbit (http:/www.questel.orbit.com) will unify its software and databases through an initiative called Intellectual Property Gold, focusing on patent and trademark databases. At the same time, it will put an end to a historic software in the history of the traditional online information industry, as it shuts down the Orbit side of its operation. In combining operations, Questel-Or bit will move the ...