Citations In Patent Data And Why They Need Your Attention
A friend of mine who is an avid blogger shared an interesting story of how he landed himself in a tight situation just last week. He received an email over the weekend from the owner of a copyrighted image he used on his blog without his permission and was now threatened with being sued and […]
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 […]
Rapid Pubmed Analysis using Patent iNSIGHT Pro
PUBMED includes more than 18 million journal records covering life sciences and biomedical research literature. The coverage dates back from 1950s and is well known to healthcare and biomedical researchers globally. The MEDLINE abstracts downloadable from PUBMED, like any journal abstract (and unlike patents), are non-deceptive and represent a clear summary of the contents of […]
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 […]
Collating Financial Data for Patent licensing research – Nice to have but not too useful for the most part
Many experienced researchers I have met say that there is no substitute for technical analysis and the insights received from analysis of the patent data itself. Financial information such as profitability, revenues and market cap of assignees may be required for undertaking industry analysis, however do you really need such data for corporate licensing research? […]