Against the pressing challenges of climate change and fossil fuel depletion, renewable
energy sources such as solar photovoltaics (PV) are considered a clean and sustainable …

With the ever increasing number of filed patent applications every year, the need for effective
and efficient systems for managing such tremendous amounts of data becomes inevitably …

Intellectual property and the patent system in particular have been extremely present in
research and discussion, even in the public media, in the last few years. Without going into …

This paper presents a relatively simple, objective and repeatable method for selecting sets
of patents that are representative of a specific technological domain. The methodology …

Prior-art search is a critical step in the examination procedure of a patent application. This
study explores automatic query generation from patent documents to facilitate the time …

In this study, we propose an unconnected component inclusion technique (UCIT) for patent
citation analysis. Our method generates a cluster solution that includes unconnected and …

In this paper, we investigate the influence of term selection on retrieval performance on the
CLEF-IP prior art test collection, using the Description section of the patent query with …

Patent prior art search is a task in patent retrieval where the goal is to rank documents which
describe prior art work related to a patent application. One of the main properties of patent …

Patent prior art search is a type of search in the patent domain where documents are
searched for that describe the work previously carried out related to a patent application …

Patent prior-art search is concerned with finding all filed patents relevant to a given patent
application. We report a comparison between two search approaches representing the state …