Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

Presentation from the Infonortics conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 27-28, 2005 * Ensuring Successful Technology Insertion: It’s Not About Technology (Only) * Consolidating and Defining Relationships between Data Sets * Filling the Analysis Gap: Creating an Information Advantage for the Enterprise * How End-Users Combine High Recall Search Tools with Visualization * Increasing the Value of Sci-Tech Intelligence through Enhanced Visualization * Using Visualization and Data Mining to Decipher Chemical and Biological Data * Mining and Visualization of Patent Information for R&D Strategy: Lessons Learned * Intelligence Tools for Better and Faster Reading and Analysis of Retrieved Data * Commercial ROI of Text-Mining Research * Extracting Actionable Intelligence from Text Flows and Stocks * Beyond Search * Analysis of Structured and Unstructured Data: Responding to Trends, Improving Productivity and Better Allocating Resource * Unified Analytics: Unstructured Text + Enterprise Data =

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has announced additional features on their Canadian Patents Database and Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents. The new features include: * " Highlighted search terms : terms defined in the original query will be highlighted on document detail pages. * Improved navigation : search results pages are now numbered for easier access to specific pages. * Toggle between languages : switching from English to French and vice versa is possible on all pages. * One click access to images : Images are now accessible through a single click. Images that are not available are denoted with “N/A.” * Database update indication : dates at the footer labeled “Last updated” indicate the date that the content of the database was last updated. Footers with the label “Date modified” indicate the date that major changes were made to the layout of the web page. * Single browser window viewing : detail pages will open in the same browser window as the sear

The patent resource Patent Lens has been extended to cover Australian patents. “This means that for the first time, the full text of Australian patents can be searched, viewed and printed at no cost, by anyone.” The Patent Lens already offered free full-text searching in US, Europe, WIPO patent documents, including their references to their status and counterparts in up to 60 countries. Over 115,000 Australian granted patents and over 580,000 patent applications are now part of the over 7 million documents in the Patent Lens’ collection.

The use of patents in technology forecasting is made possible by advancement in computer technologies. Processing hundreds even thousand of records now can be done easily and fairly quickly.Patents are structured documents . As the technology develop, especially in the area of artificial intelligence, the document processing can move toward the unstructured document processing. Read full article

Patents are a very useful source of technical information. The public availability of patents over the Internet, with for some databases (eg. Espacenet) the assurance of a constant format, allows the development of high value added products using this information source and provides an easy way to analyze patent information. This simple and powerful tool facilitates the use of patents in academic research, in SMEs and in developing countries providing a way to use patents as a ideas resource thus improving technological innovation. Read full article

Patent analysis provides an overview of innovation and a method to track technological development • Patent counts, weighting, normalisation • Macro analysis; Micro analysis • Insight •• Technology trends •• Geographic trends •• Company trends • Important for: •• Competitive intelligence •• Mergers and acquisitions, R&D strategy etc. •• Prediction and exploitation of emerging technology •• Licensing opportunities Important point to remember: • Search strategy is key • Understanding of codes and classifications is important • Clean-up of the data is desirable • Useful techniques: •• Normalisation •• Averaging counts over time • Qualification •• Geographic spread •• Citation frequency •• Legal status • Patent analysis can be valuable for highlighting areas for further study and corroboration

The collection and retrieval of patent publications is a critical component of the company’s intellectual property strategy and, quite suitably, becomes work done by a specialist. Within many organizations, patent information specialists have the responsibility for determining how patent information is best made available and how it’s best used within their organizations in a strategic manner. In addition to technical literature, books and conferences/seminars, patents are a very important source of information for managers, scientists and technicians involved in research, development and in bringing forward new products and processes. Indeed 80% of what is published in patents isn’t published elsewhere. Successful innovation is thus inseparable from the proper use of patent information, both concerning the legal-patent aspects as well as the technical-scientific aspects of the innovation process. Dutch based GO opleidingen organizes a training program in which these challenges will be

"Competitive intelligence (CI) is the process of monitoring the competitive environment. CI enables senior managers in companies of all sizes to make informed decisions about everything from marketing, R&D, and investing tactics to long-term business strategies. Effective CI is a continuous process involving the legal and ethical collection of information, analysis that doesn't avoid unwelcome conclusions, and controlled dissemination of actionable intelligence to decision makers." The technology landscape is becoming more competitive every day. Understanding the competitor's business, marketing, research and technological progress and ultimately their strengths and weakness is the first step to gain competency in the market. Competitive and technological intelligence reports at Dolcera (www.dolcera.com) can help you identify your close competitors, expose their vulnerabilities, predict their capabilities, and show you the white spaces to improve your standings in

Drug Approval Reports at FDA provide information on: * All Approvals by Month * Original New Drug Approvals (NDAs and BLAs) by Month * Original Abbreviated New Drug Approvals (ANDAs) by Month * Supplements to New Drug Applications (NDAs and BLAs) by Month * Tentative Approvals by Month

SEC EDGAR database for sophisticated business professionals is a collection of various company information database freely available for information and business professionals.

The article entitled “ Excavating the technology landscape: deploying technology intelligence to detect early warning signals ” published in IEEE, consists of good information on value of technology Intelligence (TI). According to author, Technology intelligence (TI) is a process by which organizations develop an awareness of technological opportunities and threats external to the firm and the opportunities present within the firm. There are two primary forms of TI: * Proactive scanning and * Reactive searching. The purpose of proactive scanning is to identify external technologies that have the potential to disrupt the nature of current business. It functions as the ~eyes and ears' or the ~early warning system' of the firm. Reactive searching is deployed when there are specific needs within the firm. The firm may define the needs or problems in a solution-neutral way and develop a targeted search process. The paper presents a set of approaches associated with setting up a tech

Patent Genius is the leading patent site offering information on millions of patents. Whether you’re an inventor, a patent attorney or just somebody who is just curious about what patents are out there and who holds which patents we have the information you are looking for. Patent Genius has full text patent descriptions, lists of patents by inventor and companies that hold patents, the ability to view all patents in any class or category, and much more. Patent Genius also features searches by inventor, holder, patent number and patent title. More

IP News flash new beta website is amazing, its EP Monitor system is very useful to get updated with the recent patent activities by competitors in specific IPC CLass.

Adding the drug lenalidomide, a less-toxic relative of the drug thalidomide, to standard dexamethasone therapy can improve survival in patients with relapsed or hard-to-treat multiple myeloma (cancer of the blood). More

GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Rotarix vaccine given along with other routine infant shots is highly effective at protecting against rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhoea in young children. New data from a large European trial, published in the Lancet journal, showed the oral vaccine worked against the five most commonly circulating rotavirus types -- G1, G2, G3, G4 and G9 -- responsible for 98 percent of rotavirus gastroenteritis. More

GlaxoSmithKline Plc has agreed to buy privately held heart drug specialist Reliant Pharmaceuticals for $1.65 billion in cash, in a move to boost its flagging drug sales in the United States. Reliant had been expected to have a post-IPO market capitalization of $1.34 billion, based on the midpoint of the indicated range for the offering. The group recorded net sales of $341 million in the nine months ending September 30. It has a portfolio of specialty drugs for heart disease, including U.S. rights to Lovaza, an omega-3 treatment for patients with very high levels of triglycerides. [[http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKL2167941820071121?rpc=44 More]]

Evaluating intellectual property in general and patents in particular is difficult and imprecise. One of the first questions you should consider is this: do you wish to place a value on a “naked” patent, or on a patent that is part of a technology and business package. In most cases a potential buyer would have more interest in a package, than in just a stand-alone patent. Most evaluation methods are based combinations of the following: - development cost – This may be useful for internal bookkeeping or tax purposes, but usually irrelevant to potential buyers. - business value to current owner – If the patent gives a quantifiable advantage to the current owner, such as the patent blocks competition or increases the cost to the competition, then traditional accounting methods may be used to estimate value to the current owner. - business value to potential customer – What can the potential customer do with this patent that they can not do without this patent? Traditional account

* Patent Valuation: Is Fair Market Fair * THE VALUATION OF PATENTS : A review of patent valuation methods * Patent Valuation Techniques - Federal Partners in Technology Transfer * Patent Valuation * Method and apparatus for patent valuation - Patent 20030212572

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are viewed as being of increasing importance in many fields of business. Current practice in patent valuations are reviewed as is relevant literature gathered from a number of fields including accounting methods, discounted cashflow (DCF), related decision tree analysis (DTA) methods, and econometric methods based on renewal and stock market data. Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) can be highly valuable rights playing a key role in many fields of business. However their value has been highlighted largely through their involvement in relatively rare but highly conspicuous transactions and litigation concerning successful businesses. The problem in the case of patents is particularly complex due to the, sometimes lengthy and certainly complex, application process involving initial uncertainties about both the technical and commercial success in competitive markets of the underlying technology as well as uncertainties about the legal challenges which

Patents are intellectual property (IP) that may need to be appraised for accounting, tax, litigation and transactional purposes in situations that include divorce or bankruptcy actions, estate settlements, sales of businesses and company mergers (which might require valuing portfolios of inventions). In an article in Journal of Accountancy, J. Timothy Cromley has disclosed detailed information on " 20 Steps for Pricing a Patent ". 1. Check whether the patent is in force 2. Identify the context. 3. Gather information 4. Assemble a valuation team. 5. Read the patent. 6. Investigate the patent’s scope. 7. Talk with a patent attorney. 8. Inquire about the patent’s validity. 9. Inquire into blocking patents. 10. Consider synergies among patents. 11. Investigate foreign patent protection. 12. Consider the remaining life of the patent. 13. Analyze any prior royalties paid for the patent. 14. Inquire into any actual or threatened litigation involving the patent. 15. Identify

* Patent Analytics and Intelligence enables easy decision making given the knowledge available * Patent Intelligence leads to better understanding the competition landscape * Better understanding your companies strength compared to your competition * Patent Analytics helps in the identification of potential areas of future research and development * Patent Analytics and Intelligence results in better due diilligence during Mergers and acquisitions * Making better business planning and marketing planning * During new product launches

EBI covers lots of databases and have huge informational sources and analysis tools, which can be of very useful to patent professional involved in bio-sequence search and analysis. There a lot more..just need to explore.. International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration