What is a good input to TechDiscovery?
What is the impact of adding positives/negatives to the set?
Can I push in abstract/Can I push in claims to the search?
How many characters can I add into the box?
What is a good input to TechDiscovery?
This is dependant on your use case for the product. There are three types of information that can be input to TechDiscovery. Your search criteria is the basis for finding similar patents. Use a new row for each criteria type:
Patent numbers - When you put one or multiple patent numbers, TechDiscovery will extract information from them and run similarity search based on this input. You can separate multiple patent numbers by a space or a comma.
Piece of text - For example, a text from Wikipedia, a detailed description of an invention or an abstract from a patent. TechDiscovery runs similarity search based on it.
Keywords - For example a short piece of text to reflect the technology such as 'noise cancelling headphones'.
Here is some context on which criteria type may be suitable for your similarity search:
A set of Patent Numbers for:
- Retrieving the actual patents for reading
- Retrieving the similar patents to explore patents/ideas that may have been missed for FTO search
A Piece of text (e.g. product description, patent abstract, claims or description paragraphs) for:
- Conducting a quick knock out search – understand quickly if an ideas worths exploring and further pursuing as innovative
- Quick kickstart, or to double check an FTO search (to identify potential blind spots)
A few Keywords to explore:
- Current Competitors
- Potential Collaborators
- New companies covering a certain technology that may become competitors or that may worth investing for business development (e.g. new M&A opportunities)
- Kick start a landscape analysis
The more information that is input to your search, the more specific the returned similar patents will be, for instance if you input patent numbers and a few keywords, you'll not only retrieve the actual patents for reading and similar patents to these, you'll also retrieve patents based on the keywords that have been input. All retrieved patents will be sorted based on a similarity score based on both pieces of information input.
What is the impact of adding positives/negatives to the set?
Marking patents as relevant and irrelevant and applying that to the search, improves the relevancy of your results set.
Can I push in abstract/Can I push in claims to the search?
Yes any paragraphs of text can be added to the search, remembering to separate them on a new line should you wish to differentiate between them in the search.
How many characters can I add into the box?
There is no maximum character limit.