Bob Stembridge Patent analysis and graphene 2020 programme Bob Stembridge graduated from University of Sussex, UK with an Honours degree in Chemistry. He joined Derwent (one of the founding components of the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters) in 1980 and has held various roles in editorial, marketing, sales and product development over the years. Leaving in 1988 for interludes working as Senior Information Analyst specialising in patent analytics at British Petroleum and European Sales Liaison with Dialog, he returned to Thomson Reuters in 1996 and most recently became Customer Relations Manager with responsibility for liaison with customer user groups for the organisation.
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Bob Stembridge Patent analysis and graphene 2020 programme
Bob Stembridge graduated from University of Sussex, UK with an
Honours degree in Chemistry. He joined Derwent (one of the founding
components of the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters) in 1980
and has held various roles in editorial, marketing, sales and product
development over the years. Leaving in 1988 for interludes working as
Senior Information Analyst specialising in patent analytics at British
Petroleum and European Sales Liaison with Dialog, he returned to
Thomson Reuters in 1996 and most recently became Customer
Relations Manager with responsibility for liaison with customer user
groups for the organisation.
PATENT ANALYSIS AND GRAPHENE 2020 PROGRAMANALYSING THE APPLICATIONS OF GRAPHENE
ED WHITE, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONSULTANT
COPYRIGHT THOMSON REUTERS 2011, DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE
SUMMARY
• Introduction to Patent Information
– Searching and understanding the “prior art”
• Analysing Patent Information
– Visualising large patent environments
– Identifying opportunities for commercialisation and industry
collaboration
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PATENT INFORMATION
• What is a patent?
– Government-granted right to exclude others from
practising your invention, for a specific time period
– In return, the patent applicant must fully disclose their
invention
– It must be novel, useful and not obvious
• Therefore, aggregating patent applications and
granted patents provides unique information:
– The body of work performed in a field to date
– The investment decisions of organisations
– Provides empirical information to inform your decisions
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GRAPHENE
• Plane of graphite – a single atom thick
• New methods of extracting and new electronic
properties discovered at University of Manchester,
England and Institute for Microelectronics
Technology, Russia in 2004
• Researchers Andrew Geim and Konstantin
Novoselov awarded 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics
for their discoveries
• Graphene is highly conductive
• Has a number of potential uses, particularly in
semiconductor electronics5
SEARCH FOR GRAPHENE PATENTS
RESULT SET FOR GRAPHENE PATENTS
STORY SO FAR
• We have a collection of over 1000 patent families
• It is a large amount of paperwork to review
• So where do we go from here?
• What do we want to understand?
– What is the size of market?
– How can we evaluate the potential of the field?
– What are the current applications of the technology?
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SUMMARY
• Introduction to Patent Information
– Searching and understanding the “prior art”
• Analysing Patent Information
– Visualising large patent environments
– Identifying opportunities for commercialisation and industry
collaboration
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INTRODUCTION TO PATENT ANALYSIS
• Analysis of patent information can provide powerful
intelligence on technical investment
– Patents cost money
– Lots of patents cost more money
– Combining analysis of the level of this investment with the
technical content of the patent provides a method of
analysing the commercialisation intent of others
• Identify perceived, potential or actual
commercialisation opportunities
WHAT IS GOING ON IN GRAPHENE PATENTING?
• We want to analyse what Graphene is being used
for in the patent art
• We could spend time reading and classifying
patents and reviewing them for applications
• OR, we could use a data source that has already
done this for us
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WHAT IS GOING ON IN GRAPHENE PATENTING?
• We want to analyse what Graphene is being used
for in the patent art
• We could spend time reading and classifying
patents and reviewing them for applications
• OR, we could use a data source that has already
done this for us
• Visualise the technology landscape
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Applications of Graphene
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New Topic
Recent Patents regarding Graphene
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Analysis of Pre and Post Nobel Discovery
MAJOR USES OF GRAPHENE
• Lithium Ion Batteries
• Field Effect Transistors
• Fuel Cells
• Memories
• A few different forms of display technology:
– PDP
– LCD
– Field Emission Displays – Older (obsolete?)
• And recently – Composite Materials?
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GRAPHENE AND COMPOSITE MATERIALS
• Major questions are:
– What is it?
– Who is doing it?
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GRAPHENE AND COMPOSITE MATERIALS
• Major questions are:
– What is it?
– Who is doing it?
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IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES FOR IP COMMERCIALISATION
• Who are the potential users of the technology?
• How widespread is this use?
• Does the technology have a high likelihood of
returning a good licensing revenue stream?
• Are there opportunities for a spin-out?
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ANALYSING PATENT CITATIONS
• Patent citation is similar in concept to academic citations
• Source of the citation differs:
– Can be made by the applicant
– Primarily is made by the patent examiner
– Links new patent application to the relevant prior art
• Individual patents that gather many citations are more
“technically fundamental” than others
• Identifying highly cited IP, and who is doing the citing, can
reveal the extent of commercialisation possibilities
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CITATION TREES VISUALISE THE ENVIRONMENT
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What is this?Who is Nanotek
Instruments?
FURTHER RESEARCH ON THESE COMPANIES
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FURTHER RESEARCH ON THESE COMPANIES
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FURTHER RESEARCH ON THESE COMPANIES
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WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THOSE NAMES BEFORE?
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SOME FURTHER CONCLUSIONS
• Electron emission uses of graphene appear to pre-date
the work of Geim and Novoselov
• There is a lot of fundamental work patented by
Universities
• This work is becoming interesting to corporate entities
• It is of interest in many different fields – biotech, oil &
gas, electronics, aerospace/defence and industrial scale
chemical
• Licensing activity has started – Universities are being
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