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Patent families data map

Introduction to patent families data

Patent families are defined as a set of patents that share at least one priority.

Causes of patent families

Because patent families arise from shared priorities, the tracks on which priorities arise and the tracks on which patent families arise are the same.
Priority arises through
i) Domestic(/provisional)/treaty priority claim applications
ii) original applications, divisional applications(DIV), continuation-in-part applications(CIP), continuation applications(CA), etc.

Nation scope of patent families

When a set of patents is limited to a nation, it is referred to as domestic patent families. When a set of patents extends overseas, it is referred to as international patent families or all international patent families.

Features of PatentPia Patent Families Data

Integrated source

PatentPia patent families use integrated data sources to update patent families. The integrated data sources used by PatentPia are i) XML of each nation's patent gazette, ii) EPO publications DocDB/InpaDoc/PatSat data, and iii) other sources.

Collective input corresponding citation contents

PatentPia GoldenCompass patent family content goes beyond individual patent units to provide patent families contents at the patent collective level. There are patent sets corresponding to i) company, ii) keyword, iii) technology field/patent classification, iv) researcher , v) keyword/technology field/patent classification of company, and vi) keyword/technology field/patent classification of researcher. Patent families contents based on patent sets is an innovative data service from a global view and has a wide range of applications.

Patent families data processing process

Utilization of patent families data in PatentPia

GoldenCompass analysis service

PatentPia GoldenCompass provides contents of patent families by patent set criteria. Patent set criteria has patent sets corresponding to i) company, ii) keyword, iii) technology field/patent classification, iv) researcher , v) keyword/technology field/patent classification of company, vi) keyword/technology field/patent classification of researchers, etc.

Analytics Service(coming soon)

PatentPia Analytics provides more than 10 different analysis contents for the patent families of the input patentsets.
The analysis contents of patent families in Analytics include.
i) Analysis of trends in the construction of domestic, national, and international patent families is provided.

Search Service

In PatentPia Search, it contains function of processing criteria-matched
i) General patent search/Events(transactions/litigations/trials etc.) patent search
ii) Events(transactions/litigation/trials, etc.) search
as entering various kinds of No. of patent families for search criteria.

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