Are Patent Intelligence/Analytics Tool you Using is of Old Generation

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Was just researching on the various patent tools currently available in the market. In the recent few years many online web based patent intelligence system has emerged, proving mostly the basic intelligence and few other important intelligence as well.

An article on "Second or third-age patent analytics platforms: which one are you using?" by John F. Martin, is a very good compilation of how and what these patent analytics platforms should have for being considered to be the best. According to author if answer to the following question is YES then you are using old generation system.

  • It has inaccurate patent ownership information. Database has many similar players with spelling variations or sister companies or name variations, etc.
  • It doesn’t work on mobile devices, tablets or Macintosh computers.
  • It doesn’t automatically adjust for recent company acquisitions. 
  • It asks you to select data sets or fields before searching.  This search approach is a design artifact of being a data purveyor, because they up-charge for additional data.  Having all the data available and a single search box that searches all fields is the modern approach, as Google Patents and Innography have shown for going on a decade.
  • It has a separate tool for visualizations.  In some cases, visualizations were tacked on to second-age tools or even offered from a separate vendor, requiring you to export patents, import into the visualization tool, before seeing what things look like.  Modern analysis techniques rely on drill-in and discovery – looking at a visualization and drilling into interesting areas for further insight.  Having a separate visualization tool (or visualizations that take many minutes to create) prohibit this type of analysis.

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