Business and market research and consultation services; providing business information, namely competitive intelligence, commercial information and statistical information, all in the scientific and technical fields for the business development-, research-, licensing-, and intellectual property-related matters of others; business services, namely providing computer databases in the field of business information, namely competitive intelligence, commercial information and statistical information; providing on-line computer-database services featuring business information, namely trade information in the field of scientific, commercial and intellectual property information; promoting the scientific-, technical-, and intellectual property-information goods and services of others by means of operating an on-line shopping mall with hypertext links to the retail web sites of others; licensing of databases and computer software in the field of scientific, technical, business and intellectual property, namely patent and trademark information; copying of documents for others and document-reproduction fulfillment services for others; executive search and placement, employment counseling and outsourcing services in the field of the scientific, technical and intellectual property information personnel; providing career information, career networking opportunities and staffing services, all via personal contact, conferences, computerized databases and the global computer network; testing and certification of employment skills and professional skills; outsourcing of information in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, biomedicine, pharmaceuticals, polymers, petroleum, physics, medical, electrical, electronics, medical and laboratory devices, software, engineering and mechanical technologies, patents and intellectual property, and outsourcing of searching services, namely of scientific, business, intellectual property and library research services; arranging and conducting trade shows, business conferences, and trade-show exhibitions in the field of scientific, technical and intellectual property information management and services; promoting public awareness of the patent information profession and the need for patent and intellectual property information; providing statistical information, namely statistical analysis and reporting; business investigations, namely product procurement investigation in the field of intellectual property litigation; promotion of the scientific, technical business, and intellectual-property information field, especially for patent information, by independent sales representation and marketing representation of others, tradeshows, business conferences and exhibitions