A literature review on the state-of-the-art in patent analysis

被引：260

作者：

Abbas, Assad ^{[1
]}

Zhang, Limin ^{[2
]}

Khan, Samee U. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] North Dakota State Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Fargo, ND 58105 USA

[2] North Dakota State Univ, Accounting Finance & Informat Syst Dept, Management Informat Syst, Fargo, ND 58105 USA

来源：

WORLD PATENT INFORMATION | 2014年 / 37卷

关键词：

Patent analysis; Text mining; Visualization techniques; Natural language processing;

D O I：

10.1016/j.wpi.2013.12.006

中图分类号：

G25 [图书馆学、图书馆事业]; G35 [情报学、情报工作];

学科分类号：

1205 ; 120501 ;

摘要：

The rapid growth of patent documents has called for the development of sophisticated patent analysis tools. Currently, there are various tools that are being utilized by organizations for analyzing patents. These tools are capable of performing wide range of tasks, such as analyzing and forecasting future technological trends, conducting strategic technology planning, detecting patent infringement, determining patents quality and the most promising patents, and identifying technological hotspots and patent vacuums. This literature review presents the state-of-the-art in patent analysis and also presents taxonomy of patent analysis techniques. Moreover, the key features and weaknesses of the discussed tools and techniques are presented and several directions for future research are highlighted. The literature review will be helpful for the researchers in finding the latest research efforts pertaining to the patent analysis in a unified form. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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