Business Services

Areas of Support

NTK's Business Services team provides expert advice and information on all aspects of business strategy, ranging from media monitoring for your company to consultations on intellectual property (IP) protection. Please contact us if you need:

• Find information about intellectual property protection.
• Register industrial rights (trademarks, designs, or inventions).
• Analyze a market and map your competition.
• Get help in creating a successful business strategy.

Would you like to stay up to date with the latest developments? Do you want to protect your company’s brand? We offer consultations on business strategy, search services, and industrial property protection.

Consulting Services

Are you interested in intellectual property protection? Are you starting your own business and planning brand development? We can explain your IP protection options and help you choose the most suitable form of protection.

We can support you with:

• Information services including an analysis of your company's intellectual property (IP scan).
• Preparing and evaluating an industrial property search.
• Select the right protection for your idea or brand.
• Support before and during the registration of industrial property rights.

 

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Monitoring

Are you interested in what your competitors are doing? Are you innovating and need expert advice — or do you simply want to make sure you're on the right track?

We offer support you with:

• Competitor analysis.

• Company monitoring, including detailed reports.

⇔ If you are a small, medium-sized, or start-up company, don’t hesitate to contact us. We rely on verified sources such as Mediaboard, Beck-online, Anopress, and other platforms. Our experienced consultants can prepare custom analyses, document and trademark database searches tailored to your needs.

We will be happy to advise you during the consultation and share our experience. To get in touch, please fill out the form below or send an email to: ‌‌firemnisluzby@techlib.cz.

 

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Intelectual Property Rights

Intellectual property can most commonly be protected as a trademark, design, utility model, or patent. Based on your request, we will prepare tailored services for you and, as part of the consultation, help you choose the most suitable form of protection.

We can help you enforce intellectual property rights such as trademarks, designs, and geographical indications, and inform you about specialized enforcement strategies and tools relevant to your business. We will explain the differences between various types of industrial property rights and help you select the right form of protection for your idea.

We offer support with:

• Filing a patent or utility model applicationRegistering a trademark.

• Protecting the design of your product.

• Offering a license for your intellectual property.

• Supervising an application before the enrollment procedure.

• Communicating with national and international patent and trademark offices.

 

We’ll help you better understand the field of intellectual property protection. If you're interested, feel free to contact us at ‌ ‌firemnisluzby@techlib.cz 

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Search Services

Conducting a search is highly recommended before launching products or brands on the market, or prior to their registration. We perform searches in patent literature, industrial property databases (national, regional and global databases of trademarks, patents, industrial designs) as well as open sources. We explain the differences between  individual types of industrial rights, such as trademarks, designs, utility models and patents,  including their scope and validity.

We carry out:

• Prior art searches.
• Similarity searches (e.g. trademarks or designs).
• Designations searches.
• Bibliographic and legal status searches.

 Search Tools and Databases

•   Espacenet
•   GPI
•   eSearch+
•   TMview
•   DesignView
•   Mediaboard
•   BeckOnline

For more information on searching patent and utility model databases, visit our tutorial webpage Patenty. 

If you’re interested in search or if you need an assistance, feel free to contact us at  ‌firemnisluzby@techlib.cz. 

 

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Robotics at NTK 

The National Library of Technology (NTK) has a Robotics Info Corner (with a mixture of current scientific and popular literature) and also hosts a series of robotics workshops (#RobotikaNTK) mainly for elementary/secondary schools, university students, and SMEs.

     

Robotics workshops

 

Elementary schools 

Robotics for Youngsters

•         8+ years old (grades 2 to 4)
  
•         Hardware: Robotis PLAY 700 Ollobot

Robotics ZOO Junior

•         Middle schoolers, (grades 5 to 8)
•         Hardware: Robotis Premium

 

High schools and universities 

 

 Working with the UR3e Collaborative Robot Arm

•         Drawing or pick-and-placing with an end effector gripper
•         Software: Rhinoceros (with Grasshopper plugin)
•         Hardware: UR3e (entry level)

 On the Trail of a Collaborative Robot at NTK

•         Working with plaster to design a tile
•         Hardware: UR3e (follow-up course)

 Intro to Walking Robots at NTK

•         Robot walk programming basics
•         Hardware: Robotis Premium - King Spider (hexapod)

Robotics ZOO

•         Mutual collaboration by participants in working with different configurations
•         Hardware: Robotis Premium

 The Basics of Robot Programming - Robot Cart

•         Programming basics for total beginners
•         Hardware: Robotis STEM (entry level)

Robot Cart - Working with Optical Sensors

•         Explanation of sensors and their role in robotics
•         Hardware: Robotis STEM (follow-up course)
  

 

Other

 

Walking Robots Contest

•         Competition between groups of participants
•         Teambuilding for SMEs (also for high schools groups)
•         Hardware: Robotis Premium - King Spider (hexapod)

     

If you are interested in participating in one of these workshops (or if you have any further questions), please do not hesitate to contact us via email:‌ robotika@techlib.cz.

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⇔ If you are interested in our services, please fill out the online form below and we will contact you.

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Company monitoring

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