First generation patent analytics methodologies viewed patent documents as containing information that needed to be collected, culled, reviewed and graphed. This approach considered patents as data sources. This permitted large volumes of patent data to be collected and nicely packaged, irrespective of the reason that the patent filer undertook the effort and expense to make the filing.Significantly, companies do not typically disclose valuable trade secret scientific and technical information to their competitors—as required in a patent filing—without having a defined business-related purpose for such effort and expense. As discussed above, the claims of a patent document reveal what the patent filer seeks to own in a patent application or does own in an issued patent. The business purpose of a patent filing is only truly decipherable from an understanding of the subject matter of the claims. Omission of claims analysis from patent analytics thus ignores the critical business information present
Author: Jackie Hutter, IP Strategist
Jackie Hutter, named one of the Top Global IP Strategists by IAM Magazine in each year since 2009, has almost 20 years experience advising innovation-driven corporations, investors and universities on how to maximize intangible asset value. As an IP Strategist, Jackie does not just "get" IP, she makes sure her clients only get IP that makes them money. Jackie has established this blog to provide forward-thinking business and legal professionals with strategic information to enable them to identify, capture, protect and exploit their organization's intangible asset value. As the CEO of a startup technology company, Jackie also understands the IP and legal needs of small and emerging companies and works frequently in an in-house counsel role for such clients. Jackie lives in Decatur, Georgia, in a groovy Mid-Century modern house with her husband, 2 daughters and far too many pets.
