Purpose:
To examine the state-of-the-art of a technology prior to planning or launching a new product, seeking in patents and scientific literature, in order to evaluate the freedom to operate, i.e. make sure each process of a new product development does not infringe the intellectual property rights of others.
Example:
A company wants to check out the patentability of a « product » use as part of a specific « application »
Analyzed information:
600 patent notices come from Questel databases, 1700 articles come from Medline.
Method
Categorization of documents depending on the experts’ benchmarks:
- Custom fields creation: « products » and « applications »
- Terminological lists insertion: lexicon, thesaurus.
Visualization of graphic representations on statistics between these products and applications:
- Bar graph comparing sets of documents ranked by type of products and type of applications.
- Bubble graph enables to identify documents linking products to applications.
- Cartographies to point out on actors (organizations or authors/inventors) which publish or patent over a product incorporated in an application above.
Uncategorized information Analysis
- Specific statistics on unassigned documents.
- Reading the unassigned documents
- Unassigned documents insertion into already made categories, new categories creation, or else, not relevant documents deletion.
Conclusion
In 10 hours of work, 2300 documents (1700 articles, 600 patents) have been processed, about 300 documents have been « browsed » by the experts,
30 documents have been retained (founders of the domain knowledge, bothering/blocking patents, innovating articles...). The Intellixir system achieves in a short period, compatible with industry or technology sectors (experts disponibility, reactivity on the market...), to fulfill its client’s objectives.
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