Many patent offices (e.g. USPTO, EPO, WIPO, SIPO, CIPO) publish their bibliographic patent data in XML format in accordance with WIPO standard ST.36. Some patent offices (e.g. CIPO) make the data available free of charge, for non-commercial use. Others (e.g. USPTO) make the data available free of charge with no usage restrictions.
The United States Patent & Trademark Office issued well over 250,000 patents in 2012.
This blog will attempt to illustrate, via interactive working examples based on the USPTO’s 2012 bibliographic patent data, some ways in which multi-dimensional data sources and data analytic/visualization tools can derive powerful “business intelligence” information from the data. This is not the sort of information typically derived via text/keyword searches in conducting novelty, patentability, infringement or validity type searches.
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