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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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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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)

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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 : jean.archambeault@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca