1. Donna Hopkins Senior Research Librarian Champion Technologies
Patents in Sci-Tech BI
Donna Hopkins
Senior Research Librarian
Champion Technologies
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Why Patents?
Primary Source Material
Intellectual Property is important in the “real world”
Corporate or academic research
Entrepreneurs
“Intrapreneurs”
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Primary Source
Of the sci-tech research disclosed in patents:
Only 10% of is fully disclosed elsewhere
Another 10% is only partially disclosed
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Patents are “better”
Faculty impressed by quality of information gathered
Focus is different – more “real world” and more specific
Hands-on technical information
Better (and more) illustrations
Cited/citing References
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My BI Approach
Overview of IP
Hershey’s Kisses
Use interesting local examples
Faculty
Subject
Parts of a Patent Document
How to Search
And search some more…
Hands-on if time allows
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Important Sections
INID Numbers
Bibliographic
Title, #, Dates, Inventor, Assignee, Classification
References
Abstract
Drawings
Background
Summary/Description
Preferred Embodiments
Claims
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