Patent Searching: Back to the Future
How to Use Patent Classification Search Tools to Create Better Searches

White, Michael

doi:10.24908/pceea.v0i0.3155

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“…We only use Espacenet (European Patent Office), which contains over 60 million patent documents from 80 countries [3]. From that point a structured analysis allows us to classify relevant patents by a tool named "Discovery Matrix".…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Patents are a large source of free technical knowledge that describe, explain and reveal current technologies used, and provide solutions to problems. White [3] states that patents disclose information not published in scientific journals or conference proceedings. Eighty percent of the information contained in patents is not published elsewhere.…”

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Innovation through Pertinent Patents Research based on Physical Phenomena Involved

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One can find innovative solutions to complex industrial problems by looking for knowledge in patents. Traditional search using keywords in databases of patents has been widely used. Currently, different computational methods that limit human intervention have been developed. We aim to define a method to improve the search for relevant patents in order to solve industrial problems and specifically to deduce evolution opportunities. The non-automatic, semi-automatic, and automatic search methods use keywords. For a detailed keyword search, we propose as a basis the functional decomposition [1] and the analysis of the physical phenomena involved in the in the achievement of the function to fulfill. The search for solutions to design a bi-phasic separator in deep offshore shows the method presented in this paper.

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Section: Methods and Classificationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Innovation through Pertinent Patents Research based on Physical Phenomena Involved

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“…Both ouses of patents can aid in the decision-making process. However, in order to find this information, inventors must learn how to effectively search for patents, using specialized resources (Meier, 2015) and techniques beyond simple keyword searching (White, 2010). Librarians are well-situated to provide this instruction.…”

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Student Information Use and Decision-Making in Innovation Competitions and the Impact of Librarian Interventions

Howard

Zwicky

2019

The Reference Librarian

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At a large Midwestern university, librarians work closely with an annual undergraduate agricultural innovation competition to guide students through the process of conducting market research and assessing patentability. In 2018, the authors conducted an exploratory study using focus groups of students who had participated in that year's competition in order to learn how students find and use information in a competition setting, to evaluate the impact of library support on the students' success, and inform further assessment activities. Results showed that students used information from the library and from their own research, notably seeking out firsthand expertise, to practice evidence-based decision-making.

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“…Today, it is clear that patents not only play the role of legal instrument of industrial property, but they are exploited for commercial and strategic purposes, to provide a competitive advantage to industry. White (2010) states that patents disclose information not published in scientific journals or conference proceedings and indeed 80% of the information contained in patents is not published elsewhere.…”

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confidence: 99%

A new method for extracting knowledge from patents to inspire designers during the problem-solving phase

Valverde

Nadeau

Scaravetti

2017

Journal of Engineering Design

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Nowadays, patents are more than an industrial property protection, they constitute a considerable source of information. Several approaches deal with the extraction of pertinent information from patents, some of them translate that information into useful knowledge for problem-solving purposes. However, very few methods use a physical approach and a consistent analysis of the main function in the problem definition phase. This paper proposes a new method to inspire designers with ideas and analogous solutions. The objective is to contribute to solve complex technical problems by exploiting knowledge found in patent documents. The method is divided into three sections: problem definition, research and analysis, and innovation. The first two sections use iteratively a knowledge base formed by pertinent keywords related to the problem context, physical keywords from functional decomposition and physical analysis, and technological keywords recovered through patent analysis. In the third section, interesting patents are classified in a structured discovery matrix from the physical phenomena involved which are crossed in accordance with the related techniques found. The method is supported by a physical effects database of energy conversion and by evolution trends of technical systems. A deep offshore biphasic separator illustrates the method.

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Patent Searching: Back to the Future How to Use Patent Classification Search Tools to Create Better Searches

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Cited by 10 publications

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Innovation through Pertinent Patents Research based on Physical Phenomena Involved

Innovation through Pertinent Patents Research based on Physical Phenomena Involved

Student Information Use and Decision-Making in Innovation Competitions and the Impact of Librarian Interventions

A new method for extracting knowledge from patents to inspire designers during the problem-solving phase

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