Patent documents are the ones that contain significant research results. On meticulous analysis, they can
Reveal technology information
Expose Industry trend
Instigate novel industrial solutions and relations
In today's business world, patent analysis had been documented as an important assignment at the government level. However, patent documents are often lengthy and rich in technical, scientific and legal terminology and are thus hard to read and analyze for non-specialists. Automated technologies for assisting patent analysis are in great demand.
A patent document contains a myriad of items for analysis. They can be classified into Structured and Unstructured.
The structured, meaning they are uniform in semantics and in format across patents such as patent number, filing date, or
inventors.
The unstructured, meaning they are free texts such that they are quite different in length and content for each patent such
as claims, abstracts, or descriptions of the invention.
Informatics Outsourcing brings you the following Patent mining functions