A GOLDMINE of PATENTS IP IR

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A GOLDMINEofPATENTSIPIR

• Keith van Rijsbergen
• Vienna, Nov., 2007

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Why this meeting?

• Tools
• Data DBIR, XML, text, images
• Users Expert, Naive
• Communities
• Strategy
• The beginning of a dialogue

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Partner-Organisations
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The Race to the Top

• Government and business should be encouraged
  to make greater use of the enormous amount of
  technical information contained in patent
  databases to further innovation, avoid
  duplication of research and support informed
  decision-making. It is also recommended that
  UKIPO should continue to develop its expertise in
  patent informatics to provide information that
  can aid government and commercial bodies in
  strategic planning.
• Lord Sainsbury, Oct., 2007

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Music to our ears

• Historically, the information contained in
  patent databases has not been fully exploited,
  with estimates that up to 30 percent of worldwide
  RD projects are merely a duplication of existing
  technology.....more effective use be made of the
  UKIPO patent registration database, through open
  access and electronic searching.

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Innovation Cycle
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Example ProblemConcepts
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Retrieval - Suit
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Not Lawsuit
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Word Matching
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Not Lawsuit
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Models

• Boolean
• Vector Space (metrics)
• Probabilistic Models
• Logical (implication) - what kind of logic
• Algebraic Models
• Language Models
• Divergence from Randomness
• Ostensive model
• Cognitive (users) Context

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Evaluation

• Users - what do they want?
• Interaction - does it work?
• Measures - is relevance enough?
• Test data/collections
• Efficiency

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What Next?

• Example Hard Problems
• Visualisation
• Privacy/Security
• Feedback
• Knowledge discovery
• ..........
• Let fun begin