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Converting Information Into Technology Intelligence

Bob StewartRon KamineckiThomson Scientific

Copyright 2007 The Thomson Corporation2

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Agenda

• Information vs. Intelligence

• Converting Information to Intelligence• Commonly available software tools• Value-add tools provided by commercial search

engines• Text-mining & Data-mining tools

• Conclusions


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Information vs. Intelligence

• Information• Who

• Inventor• Patent Assignee

• What• Abstract• IPC

• When• Application Date• Publication Date

• Where• Country

• Intelligence• How does it work?• Why are they doing it?• What does it mean?• How does it fit into the

“big picture?”


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Information vs. Intelligence

Data

InformatIon

Intelligence

Organize Analyze

RANKSpreadsheets

ChartsGraphs

Analysis Tools


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Organize – Readily Available Tools

• Simple Tools available from commercial search services

• Dialog RANK

• Microsoft Excel• Create charts and summaries


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Organize – Readily Available Tools

• Questions answered (Information Generated)• Top companies with patents in a technology

(IPC, subject, chemical)• Top inventors at an organization• Technology trends• Technology trends in other countries• Identify subject experts from patents, scientific

literature• Track trends from news, press releases, business

information


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OrganizeUsing RANK

DWPI

SHAPE()MEMORY OR SUPERELASTIC OR SUPER()ELASTIC

2005:2007

Result = 2526

RANK PANAME


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OrganizeUsing RANK


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Advantages of Online Tools

• No additional software

• Relatively easy to use

• Inexpensive• Usually a few cents (or less) per document

RANKed

• Results can be easily imported into more sophisticated tools

• Microsoft Excel• Microsoft Access


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XML

• eXtensible Markup Language

• Collect information once and reuse it in a variety of ways


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XML

Data

Web Page Excel Spreadsheet Portal

Access Database

RSS

Word Document

Text/Data Mining Application


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Download Data as XML


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Convert XML to Microsoft Excel


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Information Derived from XML Output

Organized by InventorOrganized by Assignee

The “Big Picture”Details in MS Word


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Analysis of Patents by Application Year


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Analysis of Patents by Application Year for Top Assignees


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Analysis of Publication Country for Top Assignees


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Alternate View of Publication Country for Top Assignees


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Advantages of XML Download plus Microsoft Excel & Word

• Both Excel & Word are readily available

• Organize & Analyze

• Relatively easy to use

• Pay once for data download in XML, then analyze as necessary at no additional cost

• Sophisticated graphing of results in Excel

• Enhanced readability in Word


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Analyzing

• Data Mining• Process of analyzing data from computers and other

large relational databases (i.e. structured data)

• Text Mining• Process by computer of extracting information from

unstructured (i.e. natural language) text and making links to form new facts or hypotheses

• Information Visualization• A visual approach to data analysis to reveal insights or

unexpected relationships through lists, co-occurrence matrices, maps etc


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Analyzing

• Data Mining• Process of analyzing data from computers and other

large relational databases (i.e. structured data)

• Text Mining• Process by computer of extracting information from

unstructured (i.e. natural language) text and making links to form new facts or hypotheses

• Information Visualization• A visual approach to data analysis to reveal insights or

unexpected relationships through lists, co-occurrence matrices, maps etc

Ah-ha!!!


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Basic Analysis Tools Available in…

• Thomson Pharma

• Web of Knowledge


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Advanced Analysis Tools…

• Aureka

• Thomson Data Analyzer

Can import datafrom Dialog


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Mining the Results of a Chemical Structure Search

InfoChem Search Engine

retrieves substanceswhere group occurs

twice


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Structure Search in DCR


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Sampling of Results


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MAP DCR Results to DWPI

102 individual compounds in DCR

416 patent records in DWPI


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Import Results into Analysis Tool


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Top IPC’s


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Most Frequently Cited (Key) Patents


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Most Frequently Cited (Key) Assignees


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Mining…

• Important information can be mined from• Patents• SciSearch/Web of Knowledge• Inspec• Biosis• Embase• News and business publications

• Gale Group PROMT• Dialog NEWSROOM


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Curcumin in SciSearch (TDA)


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Curcumin in SciSearch


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Curcumin in Web of Knowledge


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Curcumin in Thomson Pharma


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Thomson Pharma


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Thomson Pharma (Smart Charts)


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Curcumin in Gale Group PROMT (TDA)


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Conclusions

• Value add tools provided by commercial search services (e.g. RANK) enable easy, relatively inexpensive organization of data

• Readily available software (e.g. Microsoft Excel) enables visualization and entry to analysis

• More sophisticated tools (e.g. Thomson Data Analyzer) provide “ah-ha!!” moments


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Bob [email protected]

Thank You!Thank You!

Ron [email protected]

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