Patent Search Reveals EEC Biotech Strengths

To patent or not to patent: the European Union's new biotech directive.

IV. PATENTABILITY OF BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS IN EUROPE............................................................................ 583 A. The European Patent Convention............................. 583 B. Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions ...... 589 1. Procedure for Adoption of a Directi...

Heuristic Boolean Patent Search Comparative Patent Search Quality / Cost Evaluation “superboolean” vs. Legacy Boolean Search Engines

This paper explores the application of an expert system to Boolean patent searching. Speci fically, it will introduce skilled researchers to the next technological evolution of search methodologies that apply Heuristic Boolean methods to reduce cost, increase efficiency, and enhance search results quality. Boolean search methodology, otherwise known as " keyword searching, " only extracts docum...

Invalidity Search for USPTO Patent Documents Using Different Patent Surrogates

This paper describes our work at the sixth NTCIR workshop on the subtask of invalidity search for patent retrieval. We compared different patent surrogates for their effectiveness on invalidity search. Our preliminary results show that the query by the Claims field plus PRF (pseudo relevance feedback) leads to the best results in terms of relevance degree A while the query by all free-text fiel...

Exploratory Patent Search with Faceted Search and Configurable Entity Mining

Searching for patents is usually a recall-oriented problem and depending on the patent search type, quite often a problem which is characterized by uncertainty and evolution or change of the information need. We propose an exploratory strategy for patent search that exploits the metadata already available in patents in addition to the results of clustering and entity mining that are performed a...

Patent Search: A Case Study of Cross-DB Associative Search