Patent search tasks are diļ¬cult and challenging, often requiring expert patent analysts to spend hours, even days, sourcing relevant information. To aid them in this process, an...
Prior-art search is an important task in patent retrieval. The success of this task relies upon the selection of relevant search queries. Typically terms for prior-art queries are ...
In this paper we describe our participation in the 2010 CLEF-IP Prior Art Retrieval task where we examined the impact of information in different sections of patent documents, nam...
Before undertaking new biomedical research, identifying concepts that have already been patented is essential. Traditional keyword based search on patent databases may not be suļ¬...
We present a system for searching and classifying U.S. patent documents, based on Inquery. Patents are distributed through hundreds of collections, divided up by general area. The...