Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

There are a number of patent search sites available today. A new one is a semantic patent search — searching by meaning or interpretation of terms — called Setrue Semantic Patent Search Engine by Transformer. Currently, the engine contains patents and patent applications from the USPTO — EPO patents with weekly updates and more databases will be acquired in the near future. Setrue Semantic Patent Search system includes: 1.A natural language query capabilities. 2.Query auto-complete suggestions. 3. A detailed class directory structure enabling a one click segmentation of search results to a specific patent class. 4.A dynamic clustering of search results by classes 5. A dynamic clustering of search results by years 6.A dynamic clustering of search results by assignees. 7.Similar patents segmentation. 8.A dynamic weighting of search terms 9.Highlighting of search terms in documents and more. Try Now

The Federal Circuit Predictor tool uses the results of statistical regression analysis of the effect of panel membership on the results (methodological approach: holistic, procedural) of claim construction opinions. This tool accepts as inputs the identity of the three-judge panel hearing a claim construction case at the Federal Circuit. It returns the (statistically) most likely methodological form of claim construction opinion that the panel will issue. Note: Due to the effects of the Federal Circuit's en banc Phillips v. AHW, 415 F.3d 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2005), this tool is no longer a reliable predictor of the Federal Circuit's approach to claim construction. I just wanted to share this tool.

Territories Planner Tool developed by PatentlyProtected.com helps you plan which countries to get patent protection in. This tool has data on various territories which the user may require patent protection in. By choosing from the options provided you can obtain information which may assist your decisions on which territories to obtain protection in. More

Patent Formats Tool developed by PatentlyProtected.com allow you to find the number formats of various types of IP pertaining to various countries.

This tool developed by PatentlyProtected.com helps you find patent agents/attorneys whose interests are aligned with yours. In the UK it also tells you how close you are to their nearest branch.

International Patentees will need several patent applications during their first 12 months (The priority period during which subsequent applications can be back-dated to the date of the first). In exceptional circumstances there may be applications later than the priority period, and sometimes there may be more than one priority application. The Patent Fee Estimator tool developed by PatentlyProtected.com , allows you to enter patent filings and dates - and it will provide rough projections of your expenditures for the following two decades.

The PatentlyProtected.com has created a great flow diagram to check whether your idea is patentable or not. This flow chart is aimed at the uninitiated, and assumes the user does not have a practitioners grasp of the issues. As such it is loosely worded and only a rough guide. It does not deal adequately with many issues. Patentability is a complicated issue that must be addressed by a professional on a case-by-case basis. The website provides many other very useful tools for inventors and patent professional.

IPscore , the EPO's patent portfolio management tool, is now release and now it can be downloaded free of charge. You can use IPscore to: Examine your company's patent portfolio Analyse the value of individual patents Align your company's patent strategy with your overall business strategy Make the best use of patents as a business tool Identify opportunities and risks. The tool uses 40 factors to assess each patent and visualises the input in spider and portfolio diagrams. The results of the evaluation are stored in a database. More

IP.com has introduced new intellectual property management software ( InnovationQ ). The InnovationQ 3.2 features a new graphical user interface plus two new modules. In addition, several new features are incorporated into this release. The main feature of the software is follows: Document storage and organization Roles based access control Legal Safeguarding Full text search Document event tracking Document review User tagging Support for Multiple Languages Document event alerts InnovationQ is an enterprise software platform that automates and streamlines common intellectual property management functions. It helps you to safeguard intellectual property assets and make better decisions about those assets. More important, InnovationQ allows you to derive maximum value from your intellectual property portfolio. It helps you to automate and enhance most of the major tasks associated with intellectual property management including protecting trade secrets.

New Patent Search tools based on Natural language techniques. To begin, type a natural description of what you are interested in. You will get the most relevant patents lists.

Patents.com has added new feature in their website dedicated for the patent search and that is “Patent Clusters”. When you search for patents relating to a particular technology area, it automatically creates various clusters of the patents.

A lot of clustering tools are available in the WWW web. Patents are long being realized as an important source of the technical and competitive information. As the number of patent filing is increased in the recent few years, there are a big list of patents if one search for a particular technology of interest, which need to be analyzed further to get the key patents of interest, but it’s really a time consuming and need expertise due to the techno-legal language of the patent document. Patent clustering tools are currently in development by many vendor and software companies to aid the patent analyst in his daily analysis and review of huge set of patent documents. PatentCluster .com provides patent cluster tools, where documents get automatically clustered into various clusters based on the technology elements and patent focus.

IBM researchers, including a team from IBM India Research Labs (IBM IRL), have developed a tool — Patent Quality Index — to address the issue of low-quality patents. Using the company’s advanced statistical and data analytics expertise, IBM has created a tool to assist patent applicants, examiners and the public to objectively assess the quality of patent applications and issued patents. Guruduth Banavar, director of IBM India Research Laboratory, told FC that a quantitative or mathematical way of evaluating patent applications was needed. “This tool can compare the user’s report with all existing applications and give an analysis of its quality,” he said. Currently, the undertaking is at a prototype stage and being tried in multiple studies. In recent years, low-quality patents — those with uncertain scope or dubious claims to scientific progress or technological innovation — has increased substantially, together with historic backlogs, creating uncertainty around intellectual propert...

Patents are one of the most valuable competitive and technological information sources available today and most important is that, this information source is freely and easy accessible through various patent databases. Patent bibliographic information provides lots of insights pertaining to the competitor's activity, market strategies, R&D focus and business strategies. The full text of the patent documents discloses the technological improvements, innovations and various ways of solving technical problems. Various text and data mining technologies are developed and many more are in the development stage by vendors to generate valuable insights from the patent information in visual format for easy understanding and interpretation. Broadly speaking there are two types of technology being currently in use to map the information derived from patents, such as: - Patent Bibliographic Information Mapping (PBIM) Technology - Patent Technical Information Disclosure Mapping (PTID) Techn...

patentMarvel.com is the place for intellectual property tools designed to make life easier. The patentMarvel is constantly creating new i.p. tools and will make them available to you as soon as they are fully tested. The patentMarvel's PDFinducer tool allows you to easily view and download US patents and published patent applications as PDF's. Simply input the US patent number or US publication number and let patentMarvel do the rest. If you would like to create multiple PDF's at one time just separate the numbers with semicolons.

Over the last twenty years, the global economy has slowly transformed into a vibrant knowledge economy. With reduced barriers to entry and pervasive globalization, a small company in a developing world can compete for its share on the world stage. The invention of new ideas and products remains an integral part of the global economy and the commercial food chain. Patents are an invaluable tool to protect and commercialize the inventions. They are essential to creating the barriers to entry for rivals. They are needed for building the credibility and the confidence of investors, customers, partners, and employees. They are required for providing clarity as to the property ownership, for demanding leverage from the industry, and for generating sustainable revenue from licensing and sale. In the global marketplace, amongst all the other competitive factors, innovation matters the most and patents can help deliver the competitive edge required to remain viable. Inventors who used to see pa...

IPVision, Inc. enables you to build and extract maximum value from your innovations and patents. Our systems, services and tools solutions: •Analyze patent portfolios, technologies and innovations •Provide new competitive intelligence insights •Enable companies to align intellectual property management with strategic objectives •Achieved strategic control of their patents and R&D investment •Decreased time and energy required to market their portfolios Multiplied the financial return of their intellectual property IPVision patent search and analytical tool at See-the-Forest.com provides excellent visualization.

Here is a link, must for Patent Professionals. http://www.won-nl.org/2008/includes/patinf.html

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