Measurement for Emerging Technologies

ADVANCED MATERIALS	COMMUNICATIONS	ENERGY	MANUFACTURING	MEDICAL

Advanced Materials Patent Mining

(See Also Analysis for Medical and Manufacturing Themes)

• Summary of Technologies searched: Functional Materials
• Patent Maps for Medical Technologies: Functional Materials
• Table of Results on UK Share and IPC Metrics: Functional Materials
• National and International Key Players and Five year trends: Functional Materials

Summary

Functional Materials: Patent Map

Patent ‘mapping’ and ‘landscaping’ are useful heuristic and presentation tools – they involve making key-word based comparisons between the identified set of patents. Comparative analysis produces output in the form of a contour 'map’ whose XY dimensions are derived by term-frequency comparison and clustering of patents with similar keywords. The map thus portrays a quasi 3-dimensional representation of the multidimensional 'net' of the pairwise links between the patents.

An IP portfolio is thus shown as a series of technology 'peaks' and ‘valleys’ containing more or fewer patents that are closely related to one another in the overall patent landscape:

Functional Materials: Table of Metrics

The table below shows the number of relevant patents found in Medical Technologies Theme and respective sub-themes. Click on the topic to reveal the detailed analysis in graphical form.

Functional Materials: Key Trends