Developing technological innovations on the bases of the world patent information

To ensure the innovative growth and progressive economic performance in high-technology industries,or at least to keep them at a fixed level it is necessary for the industrial enterprises to conduct scientific research and inventive activities through developing technological innovations and also through supporting,completing,replenishing,updating one of the most important intangible components of the business – patent resources: protective documents on inventions,industrial designs,utility models,trademarks etc. scientific-and-engineering information,contained in international patent funds,allows determining the world state of the art,registering and securing the company’s exclusive patent rights to the innovations. this work presents the method of obtaining patent information in russia by means of using various russian and international databases and abstract journals that can help to investigate the world state of art in a given technological field. © school of engineering,taylor’s university