1. Introduction to Statistical Analysis in PatBase
AIDB 2009
Hari Chandrapal

2. Minesoft Ltd Overview Who? Where? Founded in 1996
Patent Information Solutions Provider
Serving customers Worldwide
Corporations, National Patent Offices, Patent Attorneys and Patent Searching firms
2009 Prestigious Queen’s Award winner
Where? UK
Germany US
Italy
Japan
Israel; India; Korea

3. Created in 2003 - Designed by professional patent searchers
>35 million patent family records from early 1900’s – linking bibliographical, legal and full-text patent information
>25 million full-text & > 23 million patent drawings
From >80 patent issuing authorities, Updated Daily
Searchable by keyword or classification (IPC, UPC, ECLA and Locarno Class and the German Class, Japanese F/FI terms)
Statistical Analysis functionality for identifying filing trends
PatBase Express – easy-to-use interface for engineers and R&D depts
RWS Group

4. PatBase Record Structure
Single PatBase Family Record
Citations etc
Text
Biblio
RWS Group

5. Family record view Classifications Family All Assignee & Inventors
Full Text

6. Analysis Tools to build on Search Strategy for final analysis
Run basic assignee search in PatBase and select Snapshot (PA=Smeg)

7. Instant summary of breakdown by publication year and classification
Snapshot View
Instant summary of breakdown by publication year and classification
Position mouse over bar to view definition of classification
Drill down’ by clicking on interactive graph to view further breakdown of classification

8. Click on time period of interest to view breakdown options in menu
For example, country breakdown for the 1990’s

9. Identify most frequently occurring country and combine with classification search to
explore other companies in that area of technology for that country.

10. VizPat Statistical Analysis
View break down of assignees, run additional searches directly from this window,
use advanced options to clean up assignee list and run further analysis.

11. Once left with assignees of interest can produce exportable visual summary. Can also view further breakdown of assignees by country, publication year, classification, priority year

12. Exportable visual summaries of
analysis of results

13. VizPat Classification Analysis
View breakdown of results set by Japanese F-Terms Search on most frequently occurring/relevant F-Term View results by Classification Tree to understand area of technology Position mouse over classification number to view definition

14. Assignee search combined with keyword analysis to understand company activity

15. Quick view of results using image or scan display formats to check relevancy of results

16. Statistical Analysis Tools in PatBase
Snapshot
Instant statistical breakdown with interactive graphical visualizations. Can get immediate overview and
check relevancy
VizPat Stat. Analysis
Classification (US, IPC, Japanese F-Terms, ECLA)
Keywords (+US, DE and FR claims)
Assignee
VizPat Stat. Advanced Inventor, Assignee, Classification, Country, Date for further breakdowns by additional bibliographic data
Additional Analysis Aids
Multiple display and sort options. Keyword highlighting. Export data to generate own visualizations

17. Online Patent Family Database
Search:
Search form, Browse Index, Command line
Non-Latin text, German search string using left hand truncation,
Number Wizard,
Quick Search
View:
Image, scan, full display formats and many others.
Sort by most cited and additional bibliographic info
Keyword Highlighting
Full text
Analyse:
Snapshot
VizPat Statistical Analysis
VizPat Advanced Analysis
Various viewing and display formats and on the fly machine translations
Extract:
Various export formats (word, PDF, HTML and many others, BizInt & Vantage Point)
Shared folders
Exportable visualizations

18. THANK YOU Questions ? Hari Chandrapal Minesoft Ltd
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