Featured Application This work concerns a fully functional and deployed framework for
patent analysis. The potential applications of this work range from the exploratory analysis …

Abstract The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Powered Technologies is becoming
increasingly pervasive across manufacturing and operational domains, offering a valuable …

The use of patent citations as indicators of innovation has increased dramatically in the last
decade. As patents constitute intellectual and economic value, patent citation analysis …

The rapid growth of patent documents has called for the development of sophisticated patent
analysis tools. Currently, there are various tools that are being utilized by organizations for …

Patent documents are important intellectual resources of protecting interests of individuals,
organizations and companies. Different from general web documents, patent documents …

This chapter starts with a straightforward question:“Can patents be regarded as big data?”
The number of patents has grown significantly in the last 230 years. Yet, views on patent …

Patent databases are a counterpart of a technical encyclopedia providing a valuable
informational source from patent documents. Patents apply to a wide variety of uses, and this …

A patent system has encountered significant events over the past two centuries, which
include considerable efforts to constitutionalize patent laws and unexpected great fires …

Patent protection typically lasts about 20 years from the filing date and is in exchange for
sufficiently disclosing the invention. The disclosure aims to enrich technical knowledge …

Patent evaluations based on prior art citation data are business methodologies that can
reveal hidden relationships between a patent and the associated prior art citations. These …