A GOLDMINE of PATENTS IP+IR Keith van Rijsbergen Vienna, Nov., 2007
Why this meeting? Tools Data: DB+IR, XML, text, images Users: Expert, Naive Communities Strategy The beginning of a dialogue
Partner-Organisations
The Race to the Top Government and business should be encouraged to make greater use of the enormous amount of technical information contained in patent databases to further innovation, avoid duplication of research and support informed decision-making. It is also recommended that UKIPO should continue to develop its expertise in patent informatics to provide information that can aid government and commercial bodies in strategic planning. Lord Sainsbury, Oct., 2007
Music to our ears Historically, the information contained in patent databases has not been fully exploited, with estimates that up to 30 percent of worldwide R&D projects are merely a duplication of existing technology.....more effective use be made of the UKIPO patent registration database, through open access and electronic searching.
IP IR IRF Matrixware EU, Governments, Associations Open Access Solutions Leading technologies. Large Scale Experiments Know How Transfer Expert Dialogue Problem diagnosis, methods and solutions Innovation Cycle
Example Problem Concepts
Retrieval - Suit
Not Lawsuit
Word Matching
Not Lawsuit
Models Boolean Vector Space (metrics) Probabilistic Models Logical (implication) - what kind of logic Algebraic Models Language Models Divergence from Randomness Ostensive model Cognitive (users): Context
Evaluation Users - what do they want? Interaction - does it work? Measures - is relevance enough? Test data/collections Efficiency
What Next? Example Hard Problems Visualisation Privacy/Security Feedback Knowledge discovery Let fun begin