Abstract:Abstract-Patents are of crucial importance for businesses, because they provide legal protection for the invented techniques, processes or products. A patent can be held for up to 20 years. However, large maintenance fees need to be paid to keep it enforceable. If the patent is deemed not valuable, the owner may decide to abandon it by stopping paying the maintenance fees to reduce the cost. For large companies or organizations, making such decisions is difficult because too many patents need to be investigate… Show more
“…Using some extracted contextual features (e.g., word frequency, word age and syntactic complexity), it makes recommendations for patentability decision. [12] works on patent maintenance recommendations, by extracting a set of patent features (e.g., number of patent citations and patent writing quality) to make maintenance recommendations. Patent Prior Arts Search.…”
Effective patent valuation is important for patent holders. Forward patent citations, widely used in assessing patent value, have been considered as reflecting knowledge flows, just like paper citations. However, patent citations also carry legal implication, which is important for patent valuation. We argue that patent citations can either be technological citations that indicate knowledge transfer or be legal citations that delimit the legal scope of citing patents. In this paper, we first develop citation-network based methods to infer patent quality measures at either the legal or technological dimension. Then we propose a probabilistic mixture approach to incorporate both the legal and technological dimensions in patent citations, and an iterative learning process that integrates a temporal decay function on legal citations, a probabilistic citation network based algorithm and a prediction model for patent valuation. We learn all the parameters together and use them for patent valuation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by using patent maintenance status as an indicator of patent value and discuss the insights we learned from this study.
“…Using some extracted contextual features (e.g., word frequency, word age and syntactic complexity), it makes recommendations for patentability decision. [12] works on patent maintenance recommendations, by extracting a set of patent features (e.g., number of patent citations and patent writing quality) to make maintenance recommendations. Patent Prior Arts Search.…”
Effective patent valuation is important for patent holders. Forward patent citations, widely used in assessing patent value, have been considered as reflecting knowledge flows, just like paper citations. However, patent citations also carry legal implication, which is important for patent valuation. We argue that patent citations can either be technological citations that indicate knowledge transfer or be legal citations that delimit the legal scope of citing patents. In this paper, we first develop citation-network based methods to infer patent quality measures at either the legal or technological dimension. Then we propose a probabilistic mixture approach to incorporate both the legal and technological dimensions in patent citations, and an iterative learning process that integrates a temporal decay function on legal citations, a probabilistic citation network based algorithm and a prediction model for patent valuation. We learn all the parameters together and use them for patent valuation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by using patent maintenance status as an indicator of patent value and discuss the insights we learned from this study.
“…The writing features are more complex when the number of the different words, named entities, long VP, and long NP is bigger. This typical phenomenon is also appeared in the scientific papers and patent texts [3]. Therefore, the paper The concepts are often distributed widely when they are appeared in more articles in the background set of documents, which expresses they can be widely supported by other articles according to the extractions.…”
Section: The Importance Evaluation For Electronic Documents Using Mulmentioning
Abstract-Mining the implicit knowledge in the electronic documents is a critical task in text analysis and data mining. To attain a knowledge-based view of the electronic documents, the clustering method based upon the topic cannot only be used, but also that based upon the extraction can be done. Therefore, a novel method for the clustering of the electronic documents, summarizing of the full text based on the extracted segments, and an evaluation using multi-measures for the importance to the document were presented. In the method, eighteen kinds of named entities and two kinds of syntactical phrases were extracted, and exploited for the text clustering. Then, a novel similarity equation was proposed for the calculation about the extractions. Meantime, three measures for the importance to the document were proposed, which provided a different view for the document's content, and recommended a prior checking for the users. Therefore, the method can improve the efficiency of the knowledge discovery, and enhance the management of the document on the large scale of document collection.
“…The problem formulation is different from existing work on patent quality analysis [11,18,19,26], which has focused on mining patent content. It is also different from existing works on collaborator recommendations [13] and friends suggestions [22].…”
Section: Problem Definitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For research on the patent data, Tang et al [26] propose a topicdriven patent analysis and mining method. Jin et al [11] proposed a method to evaluate the quality of patents. Liu et al [18] and Mann [19] studied how to estimate patent quality from the perspective of court validity rulings or the number of forward citations.…”
It is often challenging to incorporate users' interactions into a recommendation framework in an online model. In this paper, we propose a novel interactive learning framework to formulate the problem of recommending patent partners into a factor graph model. The framework involves three phases: 1) candidate generation, where we identify the potential set of collaborators; 2) candidate refinement, where a factor graph model is used to adjust the candidate rankings; 3) interactive learning method to efficiently update the existing recommendation model based on inventors' feedback. We evaluate our proposed model on large enterprise patent networks. Experimental results demonstrate that the recommendation accuracy of the proposed model significantly outperforms several baselines methods using content similarity, collaborative filtering and SVM-Rank. We also demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the interactive learning, which performs almost as well as offline re-training, but with only 1 percent of the running time.
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