Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

Accelerate your patents study! Aspator increases your producivity in searching and reading patents and patent applications from USPTO website, as well as Google Patent Search site. Read and print out abstracts, claims, drawings and bibliographies of all the patents searched on a single page! It is available as Firefox extension.

IFDIP (il Futuro d'IP, or the future of IP) is providing free access for downloading patent copies from almost all over the world. You can also get information from the register of few common countries.

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making. It is an image-centered diagram that represents semantic or other connections between portions of information. By presenting these connections in a radial, non-linear graphical manner, it encourages a brainstorming approach to any given organizational task, eliminating the hurdle of initially establishing an intrinsically appropriate or relevant conceptual framework to work within. Mind mapping software: is used to create diagrams of relationships between ideas or other pieces of information. Freeware software Mind42.com IHMC CmapTools bubbl.us[ Gliffy[ Compendium Mapul MindMeister Mindomo MindPlan Proprietary software Topicscape 3D Aibase Aviz Thought Mapper. Axon Idea Processor BrainMine's Buzan'

Concept mapping is a technique for visualizing the relationships among different concepts. A concept map is a diagram showing the relationships among concepts. Concepts are connected with labeled arrows, in a downward-branching hierarchical structure. The relationship between concepts is articulated in linking phrases, e.g., "gives rise to", "results in", "is required by," or "contributes to". List of concept mapping software 3D Topicscape Activity Map ArtificialMemory Aibase Axon Idea Processor CMap Compendium ConceptDraw MINDMAP CONSIDEO MODELER Conex (software) Decision Explorer IHMC CmapTools InfoMap Inspiration Kidspiration MindGenius MindManager Nelements PAUX Semantica SmartDraw SMART Ideas Thinking With Pictures TextVision VisiMap RecallPlus

There are two types of patents in Australia: Standard (20 years) and Innovation (8 years). Innovation patents require a lower level of inventiveness so they’re like the Utility Model of eg Germany and Japan. Examination of an Innovation patent is only compulsory if it is to be enforced. 3rd parties can request examination. For Standard patents there are two types of examination: Full or Modified. Modified examination can be requested if there is an identical patent already granted in eg US or GB. The numbering of granted Australian Patents recently changed. Six digit patent numbers are being given to applications filed before 5 July 2002. For applications filed on or after 5 July 2002 the granted patent number is the same as the application number

HubMed - An alternative interface to the PubMed medical literature database TeXMed - a BibTeX interface for PubMed PubMed PubReminer - PubReMiner will query pubmed with your specified searchquery, get all abstracts and generate frequency tables. The first table will show you journals in which your query is published the most. The second table will show you the authors which are most active in the field of your query. The third table will show you words that have been used most in the title and abstract of the articles. furthermore, Addressfields, MESH headers and publication year are displayed. All elements can be added to your query, and will thus make sure that your refinement still generates results. When you are satisfied with the query, you can jump to pubmed and view the results. Alternative names: PubReMiner, pubmed reminer, pub reminer, pubmed re-min SLIM - Slider Interface for MEDLINE/PubMed searches Infotrieve's Medline PubMed - Search Results from the National Li

AcroMed is a computer generated database of biomedical acronyms and the associated long forms extracted from the last year of Medline abstracts (2001). AcroMed is a part of the Medstract project whose goal is to apply natural language processing technologies to extraction of knowledge from biomedical texts. The AcroMed database is searchable by either the acronym or the associated long form. Each acronym is linked to the abstracts in which it was discovered, and the long forms can be submitted directly to PubMed as searches by a single click. AcroMed also attempts to classify each long form by its semantic type... more

MetaDB : A Metadatabase for the Biological Sciences consists of a comprenesive collection of most of the life science database links. Below are few as an example: RNA Sequence Databases Protein Structure Databases Prokaryote Databases Protein Property Databases 3D Molecular Structures Drug and Drug Design Databases Microarray Data and other Gene Expression Databases Small Molecule Structure Databases Individual Protein Family Databases Metadatabases and Directories General Genomics Databases Nucleotide Sequences: Transcriptional Regulator Sites and Transcription Factors Databases Nucleotide Sequences: Coding and Non-coding DNA Databases Model Organisms and Comparative Genomics Databases Glossaries & Acronym Databases Protein Domain and Protein Classification Databases Intermolecular Interactions and Signaling Pathways Databases

This PubMed interface finds PDFs for PubMed citations by automatically searching Google. Be aware that incorrect links may sometimes appear for articles with short, common titles. Links to free full text articles indexed by PubMed are also displayed with some citations. Link

Omgili web search tool for the finding information on personal experiences, solutions to problems, ideas and opinions. Its a platform to find out what people are saying.

A few years after their introduction in 2002, drug-eluting stents had all but replaced bare-metal stents in the treatment of coronary heart disease, capturing up to 90% of the market. PMost of the pysicians favored the new stents primarily because of their ability to minimize the risk of restenosis associated with bare-metal stents. Recently, however, new safety concerns have begun to erode the market share of drug-eluting stents.

A single-rod implantable contraceptive for birth control. Etonogestrel works by thickening the cervical mucus, which prevents sperm from fertilizing an egg and also stops any egg that does get fertilized from implanting itself in the uterine wall. Etonogestrel completely inhibits the release of eggs from the ovaries during the first two years. In the third year, it begins to lose its effectiveness. "Women who use this form of birth control don't have to worry about taking a pill every day or changing their birth control ring every month," says Thomas. "It's a great long-term option." Etonogestrel is a synthetic form of the naturally occurring female sex hormone, progesterone. In a woman's normal menstrual cycle, an egg matures and is released from the ovaries (ovulation)... more

Firefox's " Context Highlight " add0on allows you to quickly and easily highlight all instances of a word or phrase within the current page. Simply select the text you want, right click and choose "highlight". Holding CTRL when clicking "highlight" allows you to highlight new words without automatically clearing the page of highlights first.

Intellectual Property is a boardroom issue. Patent intelligence – the transformation of content found in multiple patent documents into technical, business and legal insight – is a key element of competitive advantage. When applied to open innovation, the transfer of ideas and assets between innovative parties becomes a higher-value, shorter-turn competency. In an era in which more than 80% of market value is defined by intangible assets, leveraging patents for in- or out-licensing provides powerhouse opportunities for revenue enhancement and cost avoidance while building sustainable product differentiation. Importance of patent intelligence to licensing as related to open innovation Patent out-licensing is a key source of value extraction for all types of technology, service and product companies. Patent in-licensing is a growing approach to “fencing in” or “fencing out” innovation in important strategic areas. Both licensing activities together create the engine of commerce around th

Patents have evolved as a major element of influence in economics. Even though the balance of their macro-economic advantages and disadvantages still is under discussion today, on the micro-economic level enterprises are optimising the effects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and specifically patents for their own benefit. Portfolios are instruments for analyzing and visualizing strategic positioning and lines of attack. The diversity of portfolio techniques is immense, although every technique has its blind spot as a result of the choice of axis dimensions... more

Innovation has transitioned from a “nice to have” to a top priority for most companies because innovation drives organic growth. Like other business processes, innovation can be managed to achieve results. Unlike other business processes, innovation requires introducing risk, embracing failure, and doing things that are counter to most efficiency driving processes. Building a business case for innovation requires addressing these and other differences based on how innovation will be implemented within the organization. Specifying the approach, the impact on everyone in the organization, and the means by which innovation will occur in an organization drives the business case and increases the likelihood of success.... more

Enterprise executives understand that timely, accurate knowledge can mean improved business performance. Research and development investment in knowledge-management technologies has made significant progress. However, there still exists a need for an approach that integrates complementary and best-of-breed algorithms with guidance from domain expertise. eClassifier is an application that can quickly analyze a large collection of documents and utilize multiple algorithms, visualizations, and metrics to create and to maintain a taxonomy. The taxonomies that eClassifier helps to create can be arbitrarily complex hierarchical categorizations. The algorithms and representation must be robust in order to apply across many diverse domains. It was designed to employ a “mixed-initiative” approach that applies domain expertise, through interactions with state-of-the-art text analysis algorithms and visualization, to provide a global understanding of a document collection. Most of the complexiti

Intelligence is not just information. It is knowledge that has been specially prepared for a specific business need. Most of the professional are involved in data production and fancy representation, not intelligence. Here comes the expertise in converting the raw data into actionable intelligence. Analyzing technical intelligence, the key to the success of any business, involves putting the collected information into valuable contexts. This helps the decision makers in building critical business decisions. The first and most important step is selecting the right analytical framework. Next, analyzing the collected information through various qualitative and quantitative techniques. These can be used in creating scenarios as tools to anticipate future technologies. Further, detection of the antecedents of substitution and indicators of ‘disruptive technologies’ can be used for technology forecasting. Computer aided pattern assessment techniques, e.g., knowledge clusters, literature con

Patents are the largest source of technological information. A patent is given to the inventor as a reward for his innovation in the form of the exclusive right of the monopoly for a period of 20 years from the priority date of the invention. Due to advancement in the IT sector and internet, now these valuable documents are in the reach of the general public. Any person skilled in the art can go through various patent databases and after a search can get the patent document of his need. There are different patent databases viz, USPTO, EPO, JPO, etc freely open for the public access. If we go through the patents related to a specific technological area, we will be able to find lots of information about the life cycle of technological innovation viz., # evolutionary path of a specific technology, # technological development, # technological diversification, # technology merges, # major players in specific technological area, # key points of the specific technology, # The World Intellectu

A lot of valuable information is now available of the industries in different databases in the web. Among all those patents the most important and easily available. Patent searching can give insights into the state of the art across any technical field. It can provide a platform to monitor the competitors activities by revealing which companies are involved in a field of technology of your interest. Patent searching data can also reveal the technological road map to a particular invention, the science or logic behind the invention, and its intended application. However the legal nature of patents makes them an uncompromisingly formal style. They are written in a language sometimes so abstruse that it does more to obscure the nature of the invention than to elucidate it. Also the millions of patents exited are distributed across different databases and in each case coded and grouped according to one of several classification systems. The family patent information is also varied from var

Patents are not new, their presence was noted long back during 16th century. In U.S. at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a federal patent power was proposed by James Madison and Charles Pinckney and was adopted without debate as Article 1, Sec. 8, clause 8. The history of Patent Law began all the way back with the Constitution of the United States which was specific about providing protection for those who invent new and unique products. But after the TRIPS, intellectual property rights and patents gained importance to the business communities and industries. The retrieval of the patent information was made easy by internet and access to different patent databases. Patent are the source of the technological innovation and detailed mining of patent literature is proven to be useful of the Completive Intelligence. This article attempts to analyze importance and methods for the patent data mining and their future use in the competitive intelligence. The key issues discussed in this

* How do I read a patent? * How do I read a patent - Standard Field Code s * How do I figure out if a patent is still in force? * How do I read a USPTO Filing Receipt? * How do I read an Office Action? * Patent Glossary * FIZ/STN International Presentations on Databases and Products * Query Terms Extraction from Patent Document for Invalidity Search * Authorized Generic Pharmaceuticals - Effects on Innovation * Generic Drug Entery - Prior to patent Expiration

Reference Picker 1.0 is a downloadable software tool that enables you to easily extract the US references, foreign references and other references from any patent document in .rtf or .doc format. The extracted references are displayed/saved in MSExcel format with links to the respective pages (when available) and are also concurrently highlighted in the given patent document

The search engine on the FDA Website will not find information that is in the databases that make up a large part of the site. Those databases can be accessed separately, using the links below. Following each link is a brief description of the database. Animal Feed and Drugs FDA Approved Animal Drug Products : A listing of searchable databases in the following categories: Approved Animal Drug Products (Basic search), Approved Animal Drug Products (Advanced search), Suitability Petitions, Sponsors, Green Book, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Patents, and Exclusivity. FDA BSE/Ruminant Feed Inspections Firms Inventory : Inspection information of renderers, feed mills, ruminant feeders, protein blenders, pet food manufacturers, pet food salvagers, animal feed distributors and transporters, ruminant feeders, and others regarding compliance with the BSE/Ruminant Feed regulations. Biological Products Adverse Event Reporting System : The Adverse Event Reporting System is a compu

* The International Conference in Trends for Scientific Information Professionals - The October 2007 meeting will be held in Sitges (Barcelona), Spain, 21-24 October 2007 * Pharma-Bio-Med 2007 - Submit an outline of your paper for consideration to papers@Pharma-Bio-Med.com BEFORE April 19, 2007 and include the following information * IPI-ConfEx 2007 Call for Papers - - Best Practices in Patent Information Management and Searching - The deadline for submission of papers is August 16, 2006 * IPI-ConfEx 2008 - Coming soon * O ne Origin, One Race, One Earth Conference 2007 - Call For Papers - Deadline for submitting abstracts to July 15, 2007. * 2nd Annual Conference of the EPIP Association on Intellectual Property Rights - CIRCLE/Lund University, Sweden - September 20-21, 2007 - Deadline : April 1st, 2007 * PATLIB 2007 theme: Developing patent information centres into innovation support centres - Deadline 31 January 2007. * 2007 Competitive Intelligence European Summit call for pr

GoshMe – The Web Search Assistant Features

Features * Friendly Interface for Enhanced PubMed Search and Google search. * PubMed Assistant is a stand-alone Java™ program that helps biologists and medical workers get the most out of PubMed search. * Want to use advanced Boolean queries (example) to get some "quality" hits of manageable size, but don't want to spend half an hour to balance the parentheses? * Tired of switching back and forth between PubMed's search result page and abstract pages? * Hate to manually type the citations of interest into your favorite citation manager (ProCite, EndNote, Reference Manager, etc.)? * Look no further. PubMed Assistant is right for you!

Compnay Information: Piribo - Good source for company information Easy searching of different document types in Google through Google documents Product informations: Global New Products Database Drug Information: Internat Drug List (RxList) Drug Delivery Glossary Medical Device: Medical devices search - MT Desk Med World : MEDBOT Searching tool Non-patent search: Non-patent PubMed search with clusturing of results Web answers: World's first Web-based question answering system. Link Signaling pathways Petri net GON Pathway Database KEGG BioCyc Proteinlounge iHOP

Online text analysis by Clearforest is a online free tools offering text mining and clustering and evening hilighting the various entities in the document such as: * City * Company * Country * Industry Term * Organization * Province or state Might this tool can be helpful in some specilized requirement or research.

Current Release Feature Listing of Patent iNSIGHT Pro : * Support for US, EP, WIPO, JP, GB, CA and other countries patents (Supports worldwide search available at ESPACENET) * Support for Commercial Databases - Support for importing data from XML / CSV outputs from Delphion, STN and Micropat. * Portfolio Cluster Engine Analysis - Helps cluster your patent portfolio around intelligent categories and quickly narrow down to the Category of your choice. (Unstructured Text Clustering) * Support for IPC Based Clustering of Patent Documents (Structured Clustering) * Support for User-Defined Categories/Technology and clustering of Patent Data around those categories. (Unstructured Text Clustering) * Advanced Analytics wizard that can generate any type of graph depicting various trends and landscapes quickly and efficiently * Co-occurrency Analysis that allow you to analyze how two or more pieces of patent information are related to each other * Patent Similarity Engine - Helps eliminate

The following link provides a good tutorial on use of pivot tables for data analysis. Pivot Table Tutorial

Cpearson's page contains list of most of the excel formula, which can aid after patent ananlysis and data sorting for creating IP maps.

Patent searching - Tips - Works in Internet Explorer only. About Google Patent Search Top Twenty Tips for Patent searching Part 1 How to Conduct a Patent Search Stanford Biodesign - Patent Search Tutorial Patent Search Tips Search Tips & Samples - Thomson Scientific Search Tips for using IPC Queries Introduction to Patent Searching

Pat Tools had added Search results tool. You have to put the search results URL from a USPTO search or Google Patents query and it will generates your results into a single Excel spreadsheet. Tip: Copy and paste the patent numbers from the Excel spreadsheet provided by this tool into the Table Generator to create a spreadsheet containing more detail than the patent number and title.

# During INPADOC search, it is better to use IPC search instead of keyword search. This way we can't mis relevant patents if the keywords does not appears in the title or abstract. # Identifing the key IPC classes: * Patent search (IPC of most on-target patents) * Natural Processing Language search at WIPO (http://www.wipo.int/tacsy/) * IPC catchword index