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  • An Introduction to Classification
    What is Classification and how can it help me?   Classification, powered by Cipher, is an intellectual property analytics tool designed to help your business make better decisions. By analysing the world's patent and litigation data, we provide accessible intelligence that saves you time, saves you money and minimises risk. Unlock the largest library of scientific information by harnessing the ...
  • How to navigate the platform
    A walk through of Classification with a focus on workflows In this article we navigate the Classification platform with a focus on Competitor Intelligence and Technology Trends workflows. In the webinar below, we take you through a case study focused on: identifying your competitor set, analysing the landscape's key activity, It also highlights how the new look and feel made it easier to ...
  • What is a Classifier?
    Powerful artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques applied to patent searching   Classifiers are a machine learning and AI approach to finding patents relating to a certain technology.   A Classifier is an algorithm trained to identify patent families belonging to a technology. This is done by giving the algorithm examples of what should fall within (positive) and outside (negativ...
  • What is Clustering within the Classification platform?
    Understand how technology clusters are generated and named, including unrelated and miscellaneous clusters What is a technology Cluster? A technology cluster refers to a grouping of patent families relating to the same technical area. How does the Classification platform group patent families into technology Clusters? It groups patent families with similar characteristics into Technology Cluste...
  • Starting a report
    Where should I start my report in Cipher?   There are lots of different ways to begin your report in Cipher, and where you start depends on the problem you're trying to solve, or the question you're trying to answer. The main locations to start your report are the three report tiles at the top of your Cipher dashboard, when you first sign into Cipher:       Search Cipher Tile This is your sta...
  • Report Wizard
    Simplify reporting options and speed up the process   Get to the information you require with our step by step reporting using the Report Wizard. It sits front and centre as you log in, in the New Report tile:   Report Wizard Options   The report wizard has conveniently placed your reporting in one location. Not only has it taken existing report types and made them easier to use, report wizar...
  • New Report Tile
    How and when to use the New Report Tile     This is your starting point if you have a selected organisation/multiple owners in mind, a key word search, custom portfolios and/or a patent upload as your starting point for your report.   To these portfolios, you can then apply classifiers to find patent families of particular technologies, or generate a clustered report to group similar patent fa...
  • Quick Search & Similar Family Searching
    Search multiple parts of Cipher in one click from the multi-search tile, including Tech Explorer, our new similar family searching tool   What is the Search Cipher tile? The 'Search Cipher' or multi-search tile gives you results from multiple parts of Cipher, as well as providing quick links to other tools within the platform. Simply start your search using the 'search cipher' tile from the Cip...
  • TechDiscovery
    What it is, how it works and how it can help you What is TechDiscovery? If you want to quickly explore a patent landscape for a specific technology space or look for patents that are similar to your examples, TechDiscovery is the right tool for you. It allows you to quickly get to the list of the most relevant families for your analysis and easily refine these if necessary. Skip the search part...
  • Global Landscape Report
    How to create a global landscape report using Cipher classifiers   This feature runs up to 15 classifiers against every patent family with a priority date since 1985 (roughly 45 million patent families). The video below shows you how to generate this type of report.   When creating a Cipher Global Landscape report and applying more than one technology classifier, you will be presented with...
  • Organisation & Classifier Report
    How to create a classifier report of selected organisations or portfolios   This feature allows you to select an organisation or multiple organisations/owners/assignees, as the starting point for your report, to which classifiers are then applied. Think of these like a technology filter applied to these portfolios. Classifiers can be used to compare particular technologies across the companies ...
  • Patent Upload Report
    How to create a Cipher report from a patent upload   This feature allows you to upload a list of patents to a report, via a file upload or by pasting a list of patent numbers to Cipher. The video below shows you how to generate this type of report. More information can also be found in the article below:     You can upload data to create a Cipher report in the following ways: Patent Upload:Upl...
  • Supported formats for patent upload
    The patent upload tool is designed to support uploading from spreadsheets and SPIF but will handle any kind of plain text too. You can simply paste a list of publication IDs (e.g. "US12345A1"). Among different formats of publications, it will recognise things such as: Full with kind code e.g. GB12345B1 Full without kind code e.g. US12345 With dashes e.g. US-7123456-B2 Full with kind code repea...
  • Universal Technology Taxonomy
    What is the UTT and how should I use it?   The Universal Technology Taxonomy (UTT) is a set of classifiers that comprehensively organises the world of patent data through a common lens. It is comprised of ten broad Technology Superclasses (such as electrical or mechanical) and 121 Subclasses (such as Displays or Robotics). The taxonomy was designed to ensure you can categorise every patent in t...