Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

IProperty By William Barrett, Christopher Price, Thomas Hunt is a valuable book for professionals involve in patent research and analytics. In today’s turbulent global economy, companies establish competitive advantage by creating the most exciting ideas and taking them to market. To sustain this competitive advantage and thrive long term, innovative companies must use intellectual property to protect their valuable ideas. iProperty explores the intellectual property strategies and tactics used by successful companies to protect ideas. It answers the question, "If I’m serious about strategically deploying intellectual property in a way that benefits my bottom line, what should I do on Monday morning to make that happen?" Too often, books dealing with strategy remain high-level and vague, while intellectual property books frequently bog the reader down in the intricacies of patent laws and regulations. Avoiding these extremes, iProperty emphasizes the concrete details inv...

As technologies develop in faster and more complicated ways, it is getting more important to expect the direction of technological progresses. So many methods are being proposed all around world and one of them is to use patent information. However, current patent analysis methods have some limitations. The new visualization method for a patent map, represents patent analysis results with considering both structured and unstructured items of each patent document. And by the adoption of the k-means clustering algorithm and semantic networks, thus resulting in concrete steps to make a patent map which gives a clear and instinctive insight on the targeted technology

All pharmaceutical companies have to operate in accordance with FDA regulations. Recently the FDA has issued guidelines that determine quality control standards for the pharmaceutical production process. For these companies this implies that they will have to measure every important parameter within their production process in order to control and optimize it. Oracle technology in combination with KMX provided a valuable insight in the production process. By applying data mining, generating all possible models from the data and analyzing all relationships between the models. Further optimization of the thus generated models provided not only better quality control of the production process, as required by the FDA, but also greatly improved production planning and saved production costs.

iPAT is an integrated information and workflow system that will support you in every aspect of your work. The electronic file comprises all relevant information like state of proceedings, correspondence, costs, invoices, and documents. The integration of e-mail, as well as standardized interfaces and data exchange functions enable electronic communication without gaps. iPAT is especially suitable for the smaller Patent Law firms with 1-3 attorneys and 1-10 users. Compared to other in the market available software solutions for big companies, is iPAT flexible in its usage and has a good value for money. It works in a windows environment and if you are familiar with Microsoft office, learning to work with iPAT should be easy. iPAT has many satisfied users in Austria (almost 50% of the market) and Germany (market share rising fast). Main key benefits • Complete electronic file management • Cost and investment in line with the workings of a small office • Time limit and fee calculati...

PatentPilot is an online patent information delivery service with an integrated search engine for automated monitoring of patent publications. It enables you to quickly and comfortably find, view, print, assess, comment, forward and store relevant patent documents. PatentPilot is a web-based service for which you only need a web browser to access the service. Simply define your search criteria once – IPC classes (sub-classes), competitors, keywords or a combination thereof. The system will then automatically search for relevant publication that matches your search profile, and deliver them into the respective folder of your Inbox every week. Documents found by the automated search engine can be sorted in directory structures, and then be passed on to contacts easily. So far more than 140 companies are using this service. Key Benefits • Regular information on the most recent technological trends in your filed/topic of importance • Can generate new ideas • Saves money and time • No...

It is increasingly more difficult to keep track of all (new) patents and relevant non-patent literature. In order to play the IP game effectively, one needs to have the right analytics suite. Such an analytics suite should facilitate patent departments and especially searcherts to: Provide the right information to R&D departments to help them determine a development strategy. Provide better insight in the company patent portfolio in order to optimize value in terms of licensing in and out. Be able to report effectively about patent portfolio movements and changes. To do this, classification, portfolio management, reporting and visualization are key components. The KMX Patent Analytics suite has been created with this one purpose in mind: support the searcher in all three phases of his/her work. Choose the right information out of all document resources available, analyze the information and communicate the results. KMX Patent Analytics delivers faster and bett...

Innovation is the underlying foundation of today’s competitive economy and technological advancement. There is a plethora of text mining and visualization tools available on the market to facilitate the innovative process in uncovering “hidden nuggets” of information about emerging technologies. There are various tools available in the market such as: Clearforest Invention Machine Goldfire Innovator™ Inxight ® OmniViz TEMIS Quosa™ RefViz™ STN ® AnaVist™ VantagePoint Thomson data analyzer Aureka ® M-CAM DOORS™ Wisdomain PatAnalyst™ PatentInsightPro Recently Innography Patent tools is gaining popularity and beating the market in term of data visualization. Similarly, the Thomson innovator also includes value added information display and visualization concepts.

IFI Patent Intelligence, a Wolters Kluwer Health business, has released an annual compilation of the world’s top-ranked U.S.-patent companies, which suggests America ’s longstanding dominance of new U.S. patents may be slipping. According to IFI’s analysis, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a total of 157,774 utility patents in calendar year 2008, up slightly over 2007’s total of 157,284. Although IBM still tops the list and is ahead by a relatively wide margin, the scales of patent-quantity supremacy may be shifting away from corporate America in favor of companies overseas, especially to those in Asia . As part of its analysis, IFI looked at 2008 utility patents assigned to companies separate from those owned by individuals. It found that American companies captured only 49 percent of U.S. patents granted to companies compared to 50 percent in 2007. In addition, the U.S. holds only four — less than half — of the top 10 slots, down from five the prior year. ...

Dashboard is a web-based technology on which real time information is collated from various sources in the business. It is now becoming popular as the new "face" of business intelligence is the enterprise dashboard due to the user-centric nature of its visually-based approach. These tools generate actionable intelligence, thus enabling the strategic decision makers for better decisions. IT breaks the barriers of traditional business intelligence, reaching beyond data silos to give everyone in the organization all the information they need to make more confident business decisions. Dashboard provides visibility across an organization to drive better decision making. It delivers the power to understand key business drivers by providing the means to drill from high level information to detailed review of root cause analysis. Patent Intelligence data may play a critical role for decision makers in tracking trends in innovation, identifying licensing and sales targets, anticip...

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While performing a patent search it is important that results must have high value of recall and precision. Results must contain almost all patents in searched technical area as well unwanted results must be retrieved minimum. Here are some points which searchers much consider for an effective search. Pose the Question: What & Where This is the first and most important step for selecting appropriate database especially in case of paid search. As different databases have different scope based on their contents, one need to be specific while selecting appropriate databases. Identification of Proper Keywords After selecting databases next step is to identify keywords which best define the concept of the technology. In the selection of keywords should avoid those words which are very common for other technology/subject also. Broadening the Search (High Recall) Once keywords are identified, next job for a searcher is to put them in proper strings in order to get the all rele...