Eureka! Now What? Start Your Journey from Lab to Market
Loh Mee Lan (Senior Librarian, NUS Libraries)10 April 2019
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Finding technology and company information
Introduction to patent analysis Patsnap Insights Patsnap Landscape Maps
Learning Outcomes
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Introduction
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Some Questions To Consider
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How different is your product or idea from what’s currently available on the market?
If similar, are there intellectual property (IP) protection that would affect you?
Who are the experts in the field?
Are there companies (competitors) that are offering similar products? What are they doing or are they
developing new products?
Source:Academy by Patsnap. 2019. How to turn an idea into a start-up [Internet]. YouTube.com; [cited 2019 March 29]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQb8VS_wJRA
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Patents
Business
StatisticsCurrent Affairs
Non Patent Literature
Resources- Patent Searches- Patent Analysis on Technology, Company, etc.
Information on:- Country- Industry- Company - Consumer
Newspapers, Websites, industry reports, etc.
Information on:- Singapore Stats- Other Stats
Books, Journal Articles, Conference Papers, etc. - Findmore@NUSL
Resources- Engineering- Medical- Science
Types / Sources of
Information to Check
Finding Technology Information
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Wearable Air Purifier
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-09/dyson-is-said-to-be-working-on-an-air-purifier-headphone-combo
Dyson – Wearable Air Purifier
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Wearable Air Purifier
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Wearable Air Purifier
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Technology Search Keyword search Patsnap for this technology
Add Key terms or keywords used to describe the product)(wearable OR personal) AND air AND (purifier OR filter)
Refine search - active and pending patents Semantic Search e.g. using a known patent number or a paragraph of text Add relevant documents to Workspace (create folder)
Analyze results Landscape map (pin point by patent number or block to text to find patents surrounding the area) Create technology dashboard in Patsnap Insights
Company Search Create company dashboard in Patsnap Insights
Access Patsnap via NUS Portal (http://lib.nus.edu.sg)
Patent Analysis - Access Patsnap
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Patsnap Search
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Title/Abstracts/Claims Search
(wearable Or personal) AND air AND (purifier OR filter)
Refine Search- Additional Keywords?- Simple Legal Status?- Authority?
Create Workspace to Store Relevant Results
Semantic Search
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US9737895 - Personal rechargeable portable ionic air purifier
Patsnap Landscape Maps
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Patsnap Insights – Technology Dashboard
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Search Tips – Patent Family
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IN201747024624A (this patent does not have full text) – check if patent family has full text
Search Tips – Legal Information
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US7118608 Self-powered, wearable personal air purifier
Note: Check legal status of patent
Finding Company Information
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Patsnap Insights - Dyson
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Patsnap Insights
Company Dashboard
Patent Analysis
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Patent Analysis
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- Broad overview of the technology- Identify trends- Who are the major companies/ institutions- See the “forests” (big picture/overview)
about the technology or about the company
Remember!!Patent analysis forms part of the overall analysis about the market/technology
Combine with business information, current affairs, non patent literature, etc. to get a more accurate view.
Patents
Business Information
Statistical Data
Current Affairs
Non patent literature
Patsnap InsightsPatsnap Insights provides business intelligence information. You can assess opportunities andthreats, find valuable information, about the company or technology, etc. The data is based on information extracted from Patsnap database.
2 Types of Dashboards- Technology- Company
How to Access- From Search Results Sets (Patsnap)- Workspace (Patsnap)- Direct from NUS Libraries Portal
Patent Analysis - Patsnap Insights
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Patent Analysis - Patsnap Insights
Patsnap Insights
Additional Help- Quick guide on finding company
information- Quick guide on finding
technology information
Patsnap Website- Additional Help on Patsnap Insights
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How the patents are organized:- “patent analysis algorithms to create what is essentially a self-
organising map”- “Similar patents are positioned closer together, and different patents
are spaced further apart”- “the mountains, where patents will be clustered, represent areas of
high activity and the low lying areas represent lower levels of patent activity”
- Clusters based classification codes and semantic analysis of keywords (title/abstracts)
Patent Analysis - Patsnap Landscape Maps
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Sources: Patsnap Help : Using The Landscape Tool & How are patents assigned to each category in Landscape
Based on the set of documents retrieved
Is accurate as of today (legal status will change, new patents are published, etc.)
Additional Help (from Patsnap Website):- Help on Landscaping
How to Access- From Search Results Sets- Workspace
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Additional Search Tips
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Help on Patsnap Search Operators, Syntax, etc.
Additional Search Tips
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Go to Search Helper for more tips: Search Syntax Tab; Use of stemming and wildcards
Operator Explanation Example
AND 2 keywords must be found in document apple AND orange
OR Either keywords found in document apple OR orange
NOT 1st keyword must be found but exclude 2nd
keywordapple NOT orange
“ “ Keywords within quotation marks must be next to each other in the order specified
“apple juice”
( ) Using parentheses to define search order (apple OR orange) NOT juice
* Replace a string of characters function*
$Wn Search words within “n” words of each other, in any order
vitamins $W5 nutrients
$WS Search words within SAME sentence vitamins $WS nutrients
You may also be interested to view the powerpoint slides from other Researcher Unbound Workshops:
Introduction to Intellectual Property (IP) & Patents (13 March 2019) Dr Grace Wee (ILO, NUS) shared on brief introduction to IP Ms Loh Mee Lan (NUS Libraries) shared about basic searching in Patsnap
Tech Commercialisation : Laying the Foundation (18 March 2019) Ms Koh Su Yian (NUS Libraries) on Searching Business resources) Ms Loh Mee Lan (NUS Libraries) on Searching Lens.Org and patent anlysis using Patsnap
Insights and Landscape Maps in Patsnap
The Importance of Intellectual Property (IP) to Your Research (24 October 2018) Mr Daniel Poh (Partner & Patent Attorney from Marks & Clarks share about IP and its
relevance to research and about the Patent System)
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Need help on searching Patsnap?
Go to Patent Libguide : Databases
Patsnap Online Help
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