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Extracting Intelligence from Patent Data Using Wisdomain’s Focust Solution
An overview
Presented by:
Jean Archambeault, Information Specialist
2004 FPTT Annual Meeting
2004-06-17
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Agenda
• Introduction : A word on patent analysis
• Focust from Wisdomain Inc. : Overview• Why Focust ? CISTI perspective• Web and analysis module
• Potential contributions : A few examples
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Patent analysis - 1
• Analysis of patent information for assessment of industry / technology / company, identifying trends in R&D, key technologies, opportunities…
• Usually part of a larger process, involving integration of different types of information : market analysis, industry news, expert opinions, S&T publications…
• Several applications : – Competitive Technical Intelligence, licensing /
technology transfer, strategic planning, technology development, IP management…
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Patent analysis - 2
• Contributions to the different steps of the decision-making process :
• Do we go forward with this project ? • Is this invention worth patenting ?• Do those patents have any impact ?• Is this field crowded or open ?• Who could be interested in our technology ?• Etc.
• Metrics and methods used for analysis will depend on the scope and target of the study : scalability
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Levels of analysis
Company / Organization
Government
Researcher 25-150
Increasing level of detail
# of patents
Technical
Client Need
Project orientation
Strategic planning
National policy
150-1500
1500 +
5000 +
10 000 +
Group leader / BDO / SIG Commercialization
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Focust from Wisdomain Inc. : Overview
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Focust from Wisdomain Inc. - CISTI reasons for adoption
• Distributed access
• Project management / Collaborative tool
• User defined fields / Memos / Attached docs.
• Dissemination of information
• Direct access to patent image (pdf)
• Collateral Citations
• Cleaning of data
• Export data to other analysis tools
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Overview of Focust
• Web module– Search (saved search + alerts)– Projects management– Citation module
• Analysis module (software on PC)– Data cleaning– Multidimensional analysis– Citation / Inventor / Text analysis
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Web module
Results list Patent viewer
Search module
Project mgt.
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Citation module : forward analysis
Citation tree
Citing assignee list Citing patents
Patent viewer
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Citation tree : Full screen
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Collateral citation tree
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C
FB
Backward Forward
Collateral Collateral
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Analysis module
• Software on PC, importing data from Web module and exporting to other analysis tools
• Can analyze any field, including User defined fields
• Data cleaning
• Multidimensional, citation, inventor and text analysis
• Interaction with Web module
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Potential contributions : A few examples
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Who are the active assignees - 1
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Who are the active assignees - 2
• In this technology, although Nissan and Toyota have similar # of patents (with international family) :– # of applications in last 10 years :
• Nissan 82 % Still active• Toyota 19 % Less active
• Others, like Daimler-Chrylser and Rolls-Royce have only a few patents but 100% of them have been filed within the last 5 years – Assignees entering the field ?
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International patent classification (IPC)
• IPC = International Patent Classification, a hierarchical classification system used to classify and search patent documents, adopted by more than 50 countries
Ex : SECTION G – PHYSICSINSTRUMENTSG 01 MEASURING (counting G06M); TESTINGG 01 B MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS, OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURSG 01 N INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
• Analyzing classification on a dataset can gives insights on trends and activity of a company / technology / industry
Adapted from WIPO Website : http://www.wipo.int/classifications/en/
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What is the technolgy landscape / trends ?
• Example : Overview of tech. development for a specific assignee
• Identifying process development / applications
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Patent citation analysis
• Newer technology builds on existing technology and part of this is reflected in citation information
• Some results of citation analysis :– Landscape of a technology, clusters of patents– Citation behaviour of assignees (building on self /
others i.e. innovators / imitators)– Identifying key patents / technology– Technology trail, from process to applications
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Where can I find interest for my tech. ? - 1
• Example : Searching for technology applications for potential licensees / technology development
• Hints : Generating ideas by identifying applications from citations received by your patents or similar patents from others
• Combining citation and IPC analysis to initiate categorization
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Citation analysis and IPC Subclasses
NRC Institute patents Patents citing NRC
Emitting IPC
Impact IPC
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A01N
A61B
A61F
A61L
A63C
B01F
B05B
B05D
B22F
B23K
B23Q
B24B
B29B
B29C
B29D
B32B
C04B
C08F
C08J
C09C
C22C
C23C
C30B
D02G
D04H
D21H
F16L
G01B
G01C
G01D
G01H
G01J
G01K
G01L
G01N
G01P
G01R
G02B
G02F
G03B
G05B
G06F
G06G
G06K
G06T
H01F
H01J
H01L
H01S
H02K
H03H
H04B
H04N
H05B
IPC (S)IPC (S)
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4 3 2 2 4
243134
2 4 29
2
29
3 2 4 4 6 3 4 7 3 8 2
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4 2 721
4 2
145
4 3
22
4 3 2 6 29 5 2 2 2 5 2 4 2 4 2
Citation / IPC Subclass - signal analysis
Emitting signal
B01F
B05B
B05D
B22F
B23K
B28B
B29C
B32B
C01B
C08F
C08K
C10M
C22C
C23C
C23F
G01B
G01F
G01J
G01K
G01N
G01R
G02B
G03B
G05B
G06F
G61J
H01L
H03H
H04L
H05B
IPC (S)IPC (S)
2 2 1
8
41 2 2 1 1 2 3 3
1 1
10
14
1
28
1 1 1 1 1 1 14
1 1
Impact signal
NRC cited patents
Patents citing NRC
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Where can I find interest for my tech. ? - 2
Patent with IPC A61B citing NRC patent
Assignee : JAPAN (Dept. IND. SC. AND TECH.)Ultrasonic pulse temperature determination method and apparatusClaims : 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said specimen is a living organism. 3. The method according to claim 1 wherein said heating step is a heat treatment of cancer in said specimen.
NRC patentDevice for determining properties of materials from a measurement of ultrasonic absorptionIPC : G01N-029/00; G06F-015/20
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Collaboration network – NRC Institute
Exporting data to other analysis tools
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Thank you for your attention
CONTACT :
Jean Archambeault
Head, NRC Information Centre, Saguenay
CISTI
Phone : 418-545-5070
E-mail : [email protected]