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User Interface (UI) LanguageHow to select the UI LanguageDocument Display LanguageHow to select the preferred Document Display Language IntroductionPatentSight+ provides language settings for the user interface (UI), and document display.Supported languages include English (default), Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, and Korean for the UI and document display (where applicable).PatentSight+ suppo...

Introduction1. UP and UPC: Intro and DifferencesUnitary PatentUnified Patent Court jurisdictionUPC - Where is it?UPC - Opt-outCosts2. Coverage3. UP in PatentSight data + filter + Analytics function3.1 Data3.2 Filters, Groupings and Measures3.3 Indicators3.4 Annuity Fees3.5 Legal Status3.5.1 Unitary Patents3.5.2 UPC Effect3.5.3 How to find Unitary Patents in PatentSight Introduction Unitary Pate...

Introduction In the PatentSight BI, the owners of patent portfolios are defined according to the Ultimate Owner Concept. For some analyses, however, it is necessary to extract the patent portfolio of a subsidiary. This article uses the example of Omega, a subsidiary of the Swatch Group, to explain how patent families belonging to a specific subsidiary can be extracted, saved, and used in furthe...

Since patent data is "alive" and the PatentSight database is constantly being updated and improved, the exact reproduction of analysis results from the past may not be possible at a later point in time. However, you can save your search results and your analysis results by using one of PatentSight’s export options. It may also be useful to regularly tag the set of patent families obtained as se...

The Competitive Impact deciles are formed by sorting all active patent families in the PatentSight database by their Competitive Impact and subsequently dividing the patent families in this ranking into ten equal groups from the top to the bottom. As a result, the global top 10% of the patent families by Competitive Impact form the Competitive Impact decile "10", whereas the global bottom 10% o...

While a patent family might no longer be protected in any authority and therefore have a Market Coverage and Competitive Impact of "0", it still may be significant for subsequent art, as expressed in the citations it still receives or has already received from other patent families. Therefore, the Technology Relevance is calculated for both active and inactive patent families even after the exp...

What this article covers Defines the Patent Asset Index (PAI) as an objective portfolio-level measure of global technological strength that combines patent quantity and quality. Explains how the Patent Asset Index is calculated as the sum of the Competitive Impact of all patent families in a portfolio. Clarifies the relationship between Competitive Impact, Technology Relevance, and Market Cove...

What this article covers Defines the Competitive Impact measure, the patent family–level indicator that represents the individual strength and business value of a patent family in PatentSight+. Explains how Competitive Impact is calculated by combining Technology Relevance (citation-based technical value) and Market Coverage (GNI-weighted market protection). Clarifies how Competitive Impact fo...

What this article covers Defines Market Coverage as the patent family–level indicator that measures the size of the global market in which a patent family is active. Explains how Market Coverage is calculated using Gross National Income (GNI) values of active authorities, including the 0.7 discount factor applied to pending applications. Clarifies how EP and PCT applications are treated in the...

What this article covers Defines Technology Relevance as the patent family–level indicator that measures the technological importance of an invention based on forward citations. Explains how citation counts are normalised for patent office citation practices, patent age, and technology field differences to ensure global comparability. Clarifies that Technology Relevance is a relative measure b...

What is the Reporting Date Concept? Reporting Date in Search Reporting Date in Charts and Tables How should I think about Reporting Date from a business perspective?How is the current Reporting Date determined?What past Reporting Dates are available?What does the Reporting Date control in my analysis?Which patent families are included for a selected Reporting Date?What information is used when ...

PatentSight’s current bibliographic data coverage equals that of DOCDB, the European Patent Office's database. To improve the patent analysis, we filter all documents not relating to patented technical inventions in the strict sense behind the "Other IP Rights" toggle. In this way we guarantee that the portfolio size always refers to a consistent asset class and is thus comparable among compani...

The LexisNexis family (also referred to as "patent family" or "family") of the document entered. The patent family can be searched for by the publication number, patent number, or application number of any of its members. However, note that, regardless of the document number entered, the document number of the family representative is displayed for the entire patent family. You can customize wh...

The search field "Legal Event" has four different options which you can select from.  Families whose first member has been published during the last 12 months prior to the Reporting Date selected. Families with at least one member that has been granted in any authority Families with at least one member that has been attacked by a third party. Families that will become inactive wi...

Since the smallest unit of analysis available in the PatentSight Business Intelligence is patent family, we aggregate citations on the patent family level. This means that we consider citations between patent families and not between single documents. The reason for this approach is that, according to our patent family definition, one patent family is, in principle, protecting one invention. He...

Patent families not being matched during import or in the search panel can have various causes. Possible reasons include: The documents are too young and have not been published yet. The uploaded application, publication, or patent numbers have a format that is not recognized by the PatentSight Business Intelligence. The patent numbers are not part of DOCDB and are consequently not available f...

PatentSight distinguishes between six different owner types; they are Company, Government, Inventor, Natural Person, Non-Practicing Entities (NPE), and Research Institution and each one has a specific definition and a different symbol in the Owner summary.   PatentSight distinguishes between six different owner types as outlined below:    Owner Type: Company Entities that can be identified ...

Unitary Patents (UP) are obtained by filing a European patent application ("EP") and selecting the Unitary Patent option once the application is granted. Applicants have one month from the grant of the EP application to select the UP option. Coverage for the remaining European Patent Convention member states, including UP members which have not yet ratified the UP legislation at the time of gra...