Innovation Frontline: Big Data for Patents

According to Wikipedia, ‘big dat is the term for a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications.’ (Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data)

Followings are the links for recent trends of exploiting big data techniques for patents.

1. Big data for patent analysis

http://insights.wired.com/profiles/blogs/big-data-for-patents-deriving-novel-insights-from-publicly#axzz2mhTdjrqh

http://www.ambercite.com/index.php/amber/entry/the-challenges-of-big-data-in-patent-analysis

http://www.searchtechnologies.com/patent-search-case-study.html

2. Big data for patent licensing

http://patentproperties.com/patentlicensing/

3. Big data for patent prosecution

http://gigaom.com/2012/03/11/can-big-data-fix-a-broken-system-for-software-patents/

http://www.patentcore.com/tag/big-data/

http://civsourceonline.com/2013/04/25/us-patent-office-embraces-big-data/

4. Big data for patent litigation