Eureka! Now What? Start Your Journey from Lab to Market

Loh Mee Lan (Senior Librarian, NUS Libraries)10 April 2019

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Powerpoint Presentation

https://bit.ly/RU-10Apr

Finding technology and company information

Introduction to patent analysis Patsnap Insights Patsnap Landscape Maps

Learning Outcomes

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Introduction

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Some Questions To Consider

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How different is your product or idea from what’s currently available on the market?

If similar, are there intellectual property (IP) protection that would affect you?

Who are the experts in the field?

Are there companies (competitors) that are offering similar products? What are they doing or are they

developing new products?

Source:Academy by Patsnap. 2019. How to turn an idea into a start-up [Internet]. YouTube.com; [cited 2019 March 29]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQb8VS_wJRA

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Patents

Business

StatisticsCurrent Affairs

Non Patent Literature

Resources- Patent Searches- Patent Analysis on Technology, Company, etc.

Information on:- Country- Industry- Company - Consumer

Newspapers, Websites, industry reports, etc.

Information on:- Singapore Stats- Other Stats

Books, Journal Articles, Conference Papers, etc. - Findmore@NUSL

Resources- Engineering- Medical- Science

Types / Sources of

Information to Check

Finding Technology Information

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Wearable Air Purifier

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-09/dyson-is-said-to-be-working-on-an-air-purifier-headphone-combo

Dyson – Wearable Air Purifier

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Wearable Air Purifier

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Wearable Air Purifier

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Technology Search Keyword search Patsnap for this technology

Add Key terms or keywords used to describe the product)(wearable OR personal) AND air AND (purifier OR filter)

Refine search - active and pending patents Semantic Search e.g. using a known patent number or a paragraph of text Add relevant documents to Workspace (create folder)

Analyze results Landscape map (pin point by patent number or block to text to find patents surrounding the area) Create technology dashboard in Patsnap Insights

Company Search Create company dashboard in Patsnap Insights

Access Patsnap via NUS Portal (http://lib.nus.edu.sg)

Patent Analysis - Access Patsnap

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Patsnap Search

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Title/Abstracts/Claims Search

(wearable Or personal) AND air AND (purifier OR filter)

Refine Search- Additional Keywords?- Simple Legal Status?- Authority?

Create Workspace to Store Relevant Results

Semantic Search

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US9737895 - Personal rechargeable portable ionic air purifier

Patsnap Landscape Maps

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Patsnap Insights – Technology Dashboard

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Search Tips – Patent Family

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IN201747024624A (this patent does not have full text) – check if patent family has full text

Search Tips – Legal Information

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US7118608 Self-powered, wearable personal air purifier

Note: Check legal status of patent

Finding Company Information

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Patsnap Insights - Dyson

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Patsnap Insights

Company Dashboard

Patent Analysis

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Patent Analysis

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- Broad overview of the technology- Identify trends- Who are the major companies/ institutions- See the “forests” (big picture/overview)

about the technology or about the company

Remember!!Patent analysis forms part of the overall analysis about the market/technology

Combine with business information, current affairs, non patent literature, etc. to get a more accurate view.

Patents

Business Information

Statistical Data

Current Affairs

Non patent literature

Patsnap InsightsPatsnap Insights provides business intelligence information. You can assess opportunities andthreats, find valuable information, about the company or technology, etc. The data is based on information extracted from Patsnap database.

2 Types of Dashboards- Technology- Company

How to Access- From Search Results Sets (Patsnap)- Workspace (Patsnap)- Direct from NUS Libraries Portal

Patent Analysis - Patsnap Insights

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Patent Analysis - Patsnap Insights

Patsnap Insights

Additional Help- Quick guide on finding company

information- Quick guide on finding

technology information

Patsnap Website- Additional Help on Patsnap Insights

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How the patents are organized:- “patent analysis algorithms to create what is essentially a self-

organising map”- “Similar patents are positioned closer together, and different patents

are spaced further apart”- “the mountains, where patents will be clustered, represent areas of

high activity and the low lying areas represent lower levels of patent activity”

- Clusters based classification codes and semantic analysis of keywords (title/abstracts)

Patent Analysis - Patsnap Landscape Maps

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Sources: Patsnap Help : Using The Landscape Tool & How are patents assigned to each category in Landscape

Based on the set of documents retrieved

Is accurate as of today (legal status will change, new patents are published, etc.)

Additional Help (from Patsnap Website):- Help on Landscaping

How to Access- From Search Results Sets- Workspace

Patent Analysis - Patsnap Landscape Maps

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HAVE A MINUTE? HELP US IMPROVE

j.mp/RUfeedback1

Additional Search Tips

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Help on Patsnap Search Operators, Syntax, etc.

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Go to Search Helper for more tips: Search Syntax Tab; Use of stemming and wildcards

Operator Explanation Example

AND 2 keywords must be found in document apple AND orange

OR Either keywords found in document apple OR orange

NOT 1st keyword must be found but exclude 2nd

keywordapple NOT orange

“ “ Keywords within quotation marks must be next to each other in the order specified

“apple juice”

( ) Using parentheses to define search order (apple OR orange) NOT juice

* Replace a string of characters function*

$Wn Search words within “n” words of each other, in any order

vitamins $W5 nutrients

$WS Search words within SAME sentence vitamins $WS nutrients

You may also be interested to view the powerpoint slides from other Researcher Unbound Workshops:

Introduction to Intellectual Property (IP) & Patents (13 March 2019) Dr Grace Wee (ILO, NUS) shared on brief introduction to IP Ms Loh Mee Lan (NUS Libraries) shared about basic searching in Patsnap

Tech Commercialisation : Laying the Foundation (18 March 2019) Ms Koh Su Yian (NUS Libraries) on Searching Business resources) Ms Loh Mee Lan (NUS Libraries) on Searching Lens.Org and patent anlysis using Patsnap

Insights and Landscape Maps in Patsnap

The Importance of Intellectual Property (IP) to Your Research (24 October 2018) Mr Daniel Poh (Partner & Patent Attorney from Marks & Clarks share about IP and its

relevance to research and about the Patent System)

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Need help on searching Patsnap?

Go to Patent Libguide : Databases

Patsnap Online Help

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