Sunday, July 1, 2012

What's Needed In Patent Databases


Ideal Patent Databases Might Offer

Following Data Would Really Help. Here is What's Needed In Patent Databases Today.  Hard To Find But Very Needed.


Easier Way To Tie Patents With Products - What Are The Commercialized Pat Apps?
• Link Pat Application With Commercialized Or Otherwise Produced Product:
Patent To Product Database Would Be A Huge Help. Any chance someone has started something like this even in a specific field of electronics?
• Web links related to patent application, e.g. assignee’s company website even if said site lacks patent to product data

Pat Filer Info:
• Sort By Co Size: Pat App Assignee. Sort by company strength. 
- Best: Size of company, e.g. sales volume or number employees…
- OK: Number of patents filed/issued – probably easy to find.
• Digital contact Info: Assignee’s or Pat apps pat attorney: email or fax. Need more than address. LinkedIn or Facebook?

Cheaper Thomson Innovation Database Searches:
• Save by giving your desired key words to Adaptive Patent Search TM.  They charge just by the search results, and take credit cards.  No annual Thomson Innovation subscription required (can cost $13,000). Adaptive Patent Search is in California at +1 707 427-6426 Fax +1 707 427-6473. Pay by the search Derwent database is cheaper if you already know what search terms are needed.

Scoring Pat Apps:
• Quality Score: Pat Apps Ranked By 3rd Party For It’s Subject Quality Score. Scoring Might Cover Things Like: Market need, novelty
• “Signal Processing” (easier to engineer around tech) versus “Broader Use” or “New Uses For Existing Tech”. 
- Over simplified example:
 the bicycle might be a broader user, while an improved gear could be the narrower “signal processing”.

Share Your Comments! Have You Ideas On What's Needed In Patent Databases Not Already Provided By Thomson Innovation's Derwent?  Ideas On Where To Find Needed New Technology Information?



Linking Competitor's Patents To Manufactured Products. Tools Needed To Tie Patent Applications Which Were Commercialized.


How Are Your Technology Company's Competitors Commercializing Their Patent Applications?

Linking Competitor's Patents To Manufactured Products. Tools Needed To Tie Patent Applications Which Were Commercialized.


Much Needed Patent To Manufactured Technology Product Database: 

What are the best ways in which to match up published patent applications with published product advertisements for similar technology? How can this best be done without searching each patent application individually?

For the time being manual methods to match patent to products on google include:
• Typing patent numbers with terms like: price, manufactured, for sale, distributor, distributor wanted, resale, purchase, shipping, etc.
• Looking at manufactured products for patent numbers. But this often won't make the needed matches.  Besides you need the product first and patent searchers usually start with the patent application numbers.

More at in the lower part of the posting at

Searching for Patent To Product Databases reveals too little on search engines in the context of this posting.

How Are Your Technology Company's Competitors Commercializing Their Patent Applications? Better Search Tools Needed. Share Your Suggested Databases Of Patent To Electronic Product Search Tools By Calling: California Innovation Institute TM at 707 428-5000


Find The Best Patent Databases Matching Your Needs

Top Patent Search Databases

Links On Innovative Patent Search Databases

What are the best international patent search databases?

http://www.iphandbook.org/handbook/resources/Databases/

Top Patent Databases For International Electronics Patent Searches


What are today’s best international patent search databases for searching electronic patent information?

List Of Top Patent Database Search Tools:
 http://www.iphandbook.org/handbook/resources/Databases/Is Thomson Innovation The Best Patent Database?  We have not yet made our decision.  There are pro's and con's in every patent search tool.
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/legal/legal_products/a-z/derwent_innovations_index/

Is Derwent via Thomson Innovation The Best?
Derwent invention research tools via Thomson Innovation appear to enjoy the most comprehensive database of patent apps with reworded abstracts for easier reading and searching.  Perhaps about 1.5 million patent documents are 
added into the DWPI database each year from about 41 patent offices. 

Free Search Tool Of Patent Applications:http://www.google.com/?tbm=pts&hl=en
More Database Tools:


Questions To Ask Yourself While Searching For Search Tools:

Besides Derwent, what other Intellectual Property (IP) search tools rewrite the patent applications into easier to understand language?  Derwent creates their own abstracts for pat apps that help readers better understand what patent applications are about. This saves time. Yet Derwent interfaces via Thomson Innovation are very expensive.

Patent To Product Database: Was the patent commercialized?  
• Did the patent application result in an available product? 
• Understanding a competing electronics organization's intellectual property assets (patents) and how their patent applications are monetized is very important.
Which patent applications are associated with manufactured products? Are there tools that link patent applications with manufacturers products?  This is a much-needed database and one that would require frequent monitoring.  Such a Patent To Product Database would offer more background for patent searchers, examiners and inventors on related technology as well.

Search Yourself For Patent Application Databases With These Suggestions. Also do a Google search for other’s opinions. Discover the best international patent search databases. This blog and its links are not warranted in anyway.
• General topic of best patent database tools:  (best OR top OR better OR reviewed) "patent search databases" (world OR international OR global)
• Patent to Product. Which patent apps are tied with which products? Tools that link patent applications with manufacturers products: 
-Search 1: "patent databases" best OR top (world OR international) (products OR "sold items" OR manufactured
-Search 2: "patent to product" (database OR list) (search OR search-tool OR find).

Find The Best Patent Databases Matching Your Needs