1. Clarivate Analytics, IP Expert, Middle East, Africa and Russia/CIS
Victor Zhukov
Clarivate Analytics, IP Expert, Middle East, Africa and Russia/CIS
Telling good patents from great

2. Which patent values more?

3. What would you say?

4. And now?

5. IP ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES TRADITIONALLY
Typical patent analysis largely driven by measurement of patent (or patent family) volumes, or changes in volumes

6. NOT ALL PATENTS ARE CREATED EQUAL
Same applicant, same year, different results
Which is more valuable, which is more important?
Individually, provides information on strategy of applicant, notable pieces of IP requiring more intense review
Aggregating the information, the totality of outcomes becomes quite powerful.

7. AGGREGATED QUANTITATIVE METRICS
Proxy for
Citation Frequency
Technical Impact
Filing Breadth
Monetary Investment/Strategic IP ID
Grant Success/Commitment
Market Selection, Technical Commitment
Technical Breadth
Market Applicability, Infringement Opportunity
Opposition Survival
Validated IP
Litigation Notification
Applicant/Owner Assertiveness
Youth
Remaining Life of Patent Value

8. Wouldn’t it be great if …

9. …clear patent value metric existed?

10. But that is not possible 

11. Benchmarking matters a lot in science

12. Why not use that for patents?

13. Patent portfolio strength changes over time

14. QUALITATIVE MEASUREMENTS
Less statistical and more subjective, but can include elements such as:
There is evidence that quantitative and qualitative measures strongly correlate
Infringement Detectability
Measure for the ease of detecting infringement of technology covered in the target patent by competitor products.
Inventions with higher infringement detectability are generally more “enforceable” in nature, and therefore potentially more valuable.
Claim Scope
Reviewing claim language, the claim scope is marked as broad, medium or narrow.
Generally, the broader the claim scope the better the coverage, and hence the protection for a given technology.
Design-around Protection
Based on claim scope, technological coverage of the invention, and also on the likelihood of finding products related to the invention.
The stronger the design-around protection, the better.
Likelihood of Use
Considering that relative age of the technology domain, most of the inventions will have a use or may be useful if some improvements are brought about. Invention for which there is a likely use are rated more than ones which may be useful.
There are others that, however, are

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16. More than a century and a half of trusted insights7
More than a century and a half of trusted insights
Clarivate Analytics launched, following sale of Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property and Science business CLARIVATE ANALYTICS
Zoological Records
founded by Zoological Society of London and British Museum SCIENTIFIC AND
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
MarkMonitor
acquired MARKMONITOR
BIOSIS founded by Society of Bacteriologists and Botanical Society SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Monty Hyams begins selling patent bulletins from his home, Derwent IP AND STANDARDS
Thomson acquires ISI SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH
2012
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1963
1992
2011
2016
2017
1926
1957
1997
1955
Cortellis launched
LIFE SCIENCES
Web of Science launched
SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Publons acquired SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH
ISI founded SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Dr. Eugene Garfield
invents citation indexing
and searching
SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH
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17. Businesses run on Clarivate Analytics insights8
Businesses run on Clarivate Analytics insights
49of the top 50
pharma companies use Cortellis
More than half
of Fortune 100 uses MarkMonitor
9 in 10
of the world’s most valuable brands use CompuMark
40+
Patent issuing authorities worldwide use Derwent World Patents Index
1 billion
cited references are accessible through Web of Science
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18. Clarivate Analytics, IP Expert, Middle East, Africa and Russia/CIS
Victor Zhukov
Clarivate Analytics, IP Expert, Middle East, Africa and Russia/CIS