By Tammy D'Amato and Christine Wren and Scott Oldach of Patent Board™In 2008 we launched a series of articles that all started with the simple question
“Why Use Patent Analytics?” which, as we had hoped, generated interest and
discussion. We identified Fortune 1000 companies, New Ventures, Investors, Lawyers, Research
Universities and Governments as potential users of patent analytics as well as four types of patent
analytics that could be useful.
As featured in the December 2008 edition, The Patent Board™ spoke to
“How Law Firms Could Benefit from Patent Analytics?” Traditionally, patent
attorneys had focused primarily on the critical role of prosecuting and litigating patents, but as many
companies struggle to capitalize on their Intellectual Property (IP) investments, some attorneys are
also expanding their role to that of senior business counsel. In order for law firms to fulfill this
sophisticated role, they must be able to use analytics that assess IP assets, beginning with their own
firms’ representation abilities. Law firms can specifically use patent bibliometric
techniques to assess their patent representation against other firms.
The focus of this article is to enrich the traditionally published rankings for law firms
by taking a deeper dive into the most often used ranking methodology – patent counts –
and expanding it to look at the origin of its filing...
