In a new short series of posts, Shekhar Khanduja looks at the roots of aggressive patent licensing in the US technology industry, in Part 1 today. Look out for Part 2 and 3 in the next few weeks where he makes some predictions for the future of patent licensing.
It’s the searcher’s dilemma: if an FTO search is too wide, it’s too time-consuming and expensive, but if it’s too narrow you are taking a huge risk. In her second post, Priyanka Paul discusses the issues – and a framework – for striking the right balance.
Legal Notice – Patent Infringement! A good freedom-to-operate (FTO) search identifies potential barriers to commercializing products or technologies, eliminating infringement risk. In the first part of a new series on FTO searches, Priyanka Paul tells us how to conduct a good FTO search.
While few would challenge the value of market intelligence or research in financial services, why don’t more R&D, intellectual property or strategy managers harness the power of innovation intelligence? Urs Dommann shares his thoughts on how decision makers in R&D will benefit.
News articles, scientific literature, and the like should be on every IPR&D searcher’s hit list. Priyal Bisht advises: ignore non-patent sources at your peril – that might be exactly where you will find the nuggets of gold.
“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others.” Urs Dommann shares his thanks, wishes and resolutions for the holiday season, including a few Christmas gifts he’d like to see the Intellectual Property and Research and Development Services industry give to itself.
Using the Evalueserve Problem-Solution-Application Framework, Ashutosh Pande tells us how to combine the logical variables of search query to control recall. Grab your paint brushes!
In the third part of his series on IPR&D Alerts, Ronen Speyer, shows you how to unlock the economic value of patent watches by enriching data through tagging.
In the second part of his series on IPR&D Alerts, Ronen Speyer demonstrates that when it comes to patent watches, it’s all in the genes: learn how to use the Alert Quality Index to balance recall, precision, and insights.
We’ve been busy in our quest for patent search quality since launching the Information Adventurers Blog in May 2018. Urs Dommann takes us on a whistle-stop tour on what we’ve found out over the summer, and how we will change track now that winter is coming. Join us on our journey!
When done properly, patent alerts are a major weapon in the corporate arsenal. However, in this new blog series, Ronen Speyer argues many companies are wasting money on patent watches, and tells us how to put this right.
Cutting through the Artificial Intelligence hype, Jeroen Kleinhoven and Fedde van der Lijn begin a series of posts on when using AI in patent analysis and innovation intelligence makes perfect business sense – and when it absolutely doesn’t. Read more to understand if AI is right for your use case – or perhaps not yet!
Dommann shares how the village library of his youth inspired his passion for information science, patent search and innovation analytics. Read about the importance of custom tagging.
Search quality starts with smart query formulation – Ashutosh Pande shares how Evalueserve improves search quality by applying Problem-Solution-Application Framework.
High-volume tasks like IP docketing can become overwhelming, meaning work on patent analytics and designing new services can suffer. BASF’s IP group trusts Evalueserve to support it with this sensitive work. Justin Delfino tells us why.
Shekhar Khanduja, raises search quality by pairing ‘Explorers’ and ’Planners’ on his team to different IP and R&D use cases with some fascinating results! This new post is the first of many showing how to control the factors in our ‘Search Quality Index’.
Ashutosh Pande and Urs Dommann discuss economics of patent searching; and introduce an initial formula describing search quality (“search quality index”). Let’s get serious with understanding search quality.
Much of the value offered by IP search services is helping customers to identify the most relevant data sources, without getting distracted by the irrelevant. But this can come at a cost. Urs Dommann and Ashutosh Pande explain the searcher’s dilemma.
If you could clone the ‘perfect searcher’, what kind of personality, experience and profile would you specify to optimize patent search quality? Urs Dommann reflects on the human factors of knowledge management, and how machines fill the inevitable gaps.
Is it possible to deliver a perfect IP and R&D search, i.e., a novelty or validity search that finds 100% of the relevant documents? Urs Dommann tells the story of seeing it achieved and explains why the method can’t be repeated.
The Head of Evalueserve’s IPR&D business Urs Dommann launches our Information Adventurers blog with a fundamental and provocative question. What constitutes a good IP and R&D search or intelligence?