Key questions for any patent landscape analysis are: Is this a growing area of interest? What are the fields of current interest? Who are the key players? Delivered from two different perspectives, we will discuss the challenges in creating a patent landscape analysis and the features and functionality of PatBase which enable the efficient creation of clean and reliable patent landscape studies. From the development of a comprehensive search strategy to the analysis and visualization of results, we will use a case study to demonstrate a number of features and techniques including Thesauri to craft a comprehensive strategy. Citation ranking to identify the most pertinent patents. Advanced keyword highlighting to efficiently review large numbers of documents. Use of the “Similar” function to identify related documents and PatBase Analytics to: Help build a comprehensive strategy and Visualize the results of the landscape analysis. The aim of any patent landscape analysis is to accurately identify and visualise results so that answers to key questions are quickly and easily found. This presentation will demonstrate how any user can benefit from the innovative features and functionality in PatBase to craft and visualize a meaningful patent landscape for any technical area.

1. Effective and Efficient Patent Landscaping
using PatBase - a case study
ICIC 2015, Nice, France
Robert Poolman Aalt van de Kuilen
Minesoft Patent Information Services B.V.

2. Agenda
• Introduction to Minesoft
• Efficient and effective patent landscaping using PatBase
– Background and Challenges
– Methodology
– Case study
– Features of PatBase to aid patent landscaping:
• Classification finder
• Chemical search
• Ranking of results by citations
• Advanced keyword highlighting
• Use of the “Similar” function
• PatBase Analytics
– Conclusion and Summary

3. • Founded in 1996
• Innovative Global Patent Information Provider
• HQ in London, UK
• Partners with RWS & Tempus IP
• Designs solutions to help customers harness the power
of patent information throughout the innovation process
Minesoft – Who we are

4. Specialists
in Patent
Information
Building
Intelligent
Patent
Information
Solutions
Minesoft - What we do
Trusted
by IP experts
Worldwide
Corporations,
National Patent
Offices, Patent
Attorneys and
Patent Search
Firms worldwide
International
Customer
Support
Global client base,
including USA,
Germany, Japan,
India and Israel

5. Background and Challenges
• What is a patent landscape?
“Patent landscape reports provide a snap-shot of the patent
situation of a specific technology, either within a given
country or region, or globally” (Source: WIPO)
• Challenges:

6. Methodology
• Subject matter investigation
• Compile search strategy
• Keywords
• Classifications
• Run initial basic search
• Analyse and optimise strategy
• Visualize and review
• Draw conclusions……..

7. Some Key Questions
• Is this a growing area of interest?
• What are the fields of current interest?
• Who are the key players?
• Where are the key players filing their inventions?
• Who are the “key opinion leaders” in this field?
• What is the legal status of the families in this area?

8. Case Study – Ebola
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10. • Keyword analysis:
• Initial basic strategy: TAC=(ebola)
• New keywords: “Marburg virus or Filovirus or Hemorrhagic fever”

11. • Keyword analysis:
• Remove irrelevant results from landscape
• Example: “HIV Infection”

12. • Optimise strategy
• Classification Codes – CPC/IPC
• Add codes to strategy and review definitions for keywords

13. • Optimise strategy with key assignees and inventors

14. Features
• Classification finder

15. Features
• Chemical Search

16. • Sorting results by “Most Cited”
• Identifies key patents in the technical area
Features

17. • Advanced keyword highlighting
• Supports proximity operators and left and right hand truncation
Features

18. • “Similar” function
• Identifies patent families related to the family of interest
Features

19. Keywords
Specific
Ebola CPC
Codes
Chemical
Search
Top
IPC/CPC
Codes
Key
assignees
and
inventors
Basic
strategy

20. • Is this a growing area of interest?

21. • What are the fields of current interest?

22. • What are the fields of current interest?

23. • Who are the key players in this area?

24. • Where are the key players filing their patents?
• Example: NIH

25. • Who are the “key opinion leaders” in this area?

26. • What is the legal status of the families in this area?

27. Conclusions
• Growing Ebola patent landscape
• Key players include:
• NIH, Gilead, Novartis, BMS
• Smaller companies: Ibis, Kineta, Biocryst, Alios
• Top 5 countries for filing by NIH are:
• WO, US, EP, CA, AU
• Key opinion leaders include:
• Peter L Collins (NIH)
• He Liqi (BMS)
• Top fields of interest: anti-viral compounds, vaccines, antibodies,
detection methods and enhancing immune response to the virus

28. Summary
Chemical
Search
Classification
Finder
Citation
Searching
Ranking by
“most cited”
Keyword
Highlighting
“Similar”
function

29. Thank you
Robert Poolman
Senior Manager
robert@minesoft.com
For further information:
Phone: +1 866-745-3621
Email: info@minesoft.com
Aalt van de Kuilen
Managing Director
aaltvandekuilen@gmail.com
For further information:
Phone:+31 6-5431-4840
Email: info@patentinformationservices.nl