Methods for Assignee Normalization
Normalization is the process of efficiently organizing data in to eliminate redundancies. In patent analysis, Assignee Normalization is a process of preparing clean and accurate Assignee names from the raw data that exists on the published record. When assignees are not present or organized properly, the accuracy of the analysis is greatly hampered and the […]
Delivering Key IP Asset Intelligence To Technology Management Decision Makers
Management of technology and research relies on being able to make the right decisions at the right time which in turn depends on the quick availability of reliable information. Whether deciding on strategy like what direction the innovation and research arm of the business should take and which are the areas the competition has left room […]
The WIPO 2009 Report – Interesting Patent Statistics & What Do They Imply To Your IP Intelligence Requirements
September 18th 2009 marked the end of a two day international symposium for IP heads by WIPO. Based on the 2009 World Intellectual Property Indicators report by WIPO which was also recently released we can only guess there were a number of important issues to discuss including the impact of the global economic crisis and recession on […]
Patent Licensing in Universities – Extracting value from research investments
Universities in the US encourage researchers with innovative minds to pursue their inventions and invest into patenting promising inventions expecting to generate profits by licensing the developed technology to interested companies. The technology transfer offices of the universities usually get many invention ideas from their researchers and have to decide which ones to invest further time and resources […]
Patent Data Analysis Software – Making Life Easier In The World of Computer Technology & Semiconductors
Perhaps one of the most active areas in the forever evolving patent databases is the sphere computer technology and semiconductors. With the sheer volume of R&D in happening in this space today, patent offices world over are busy with new patents constantly being filed. It’s a constant and tedious process for the companies, researchers, legal […]
Competitive Intelligence – Keeping An Eye On The Competition By Tracking IP & Patent Activity
In our last post we talked about a popular notion that anything to do with patents is relevant only to those who need to file them and those who have legal vested interests in them. We concluded that if analyzed in the right perspective, patent activity can provide actionable intelligence across business functions. The fact is, […]
Creating and maintaining technology portfolios
As a technology driven company, your business either revolves around a core technology in case of a startup or around multiple technologies and products for a large corporation and chances are you would be already accessing patent information from a patent database. However, if you are serious about IP and its role in your technology strategy […]
The New Technology Managers
The trend of keeping R&D professionals from being exposed to patent information on a need-only basis is reducing as companies realize that product innovation today requires more than just the strategy of applying innovative thinking. Till date, popular reasons for having research teams to not look at patent data have been patents research can – bias […]
On Patent Text Clustering
Amongst various analyses performed on patents, the area where specialized software helps immensely is text-mining and two of the most popular text mining techniques used over patent data are: – Text segmentation / Tokenization – Text Clustering / Topic identification Text segmentation is a process of analyzing the patent text and identifying smaller meaningful segments […]
White Space Analysis using Patent iNSIGHT Pro
White-spaces are gaps in a technology landscape that have potential for attaining exclusivity. Many Technology and IP managers today look at white-space analysis as one of the key methods for strategic product innovation. Using white-space analysis they: Refine research direction by finding new areas for innovation and exclusivity Enhance product-patent portfolio. Broaden scope of existing […]