Information and meta-information related to national and international patents is a critical
asset for every innovative company. The complexity of managing, searching, analyzing and …

Software maintenance has dramatically evolved in the last four decades, to cope with the
continuously changing software development models, and programming languages and …

Patent maps showing competition trends in technological development can provide valuable
input for decision support on research and development (R&D) strategies. By introducing …

Patent intelligence—the transformation of content found in multiple patents into technical,
business, and legal insight—is considered a key factor in gaining a competitive advantage …

A technology roadmap (TRM) links technologies with a company's strategic objectives and
so supports acquisition of required technologies in advance of needs. It is a powerful tool for …

The role of text mining based on technological documents such as patents is important in the
research field of technology intelligence for technology R&D planning. In addition, WordNet …

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 …

For certain tasks in patent management it makes sense to apply a quantitative measure of
textual similarity between patents and/or parts thereof: be it the analysis of freedom to …

In this article, we discuss the potential benefits, the requirements and the challenges
involved in patent image retrieval and subsequently, we propose a framework that …

In this paper we summarize the results obtained so far in the communities interested in the
development of automated processing techniques as applied to business documents, and …