Patent Content Integration

Research-oriented digital libraries can bring greater value to a broader audience by integrating with new content sources. In many scientific and technology domains, patents are the most valuable target for extended content, since R&D efforts in the domain have a focus on developing new intellectual property (IP) and protecting it through patents. Patents and the research literature have traditionally been separated, but their integration reveals valuable connections. Parity obtains patent content from the USPTO and worldwide patent authorities, and processes the data for rich integration into clients' digital libraries.

• Integrated research: Users discover relevant patents and research content together, through integrated search and extensive hyperlinking connecting the content sources
• Comprehensive view of technology trends: Parity's integrated profiles of researchers, inventors, and institutions track their complete research and IP history.
• Demonstrate IP impact of research publications: Patent citations to the research literature have grown significantly, with new recognition of the impact of research publications on IP. Linked patent citations trace the IP that has resulted from specific published articles.
• Attract new types of users and usage: Open up the patent literature to researchers, and the research literature to business and legal users focused on protecting IP.
• Premium value for institutional users: Patent integration brings particular value to companies and research institutions, providing comprehensive tracking of both in-house and competing patents and publications within their domain.
• Targeted vertical products: Patents provide key content for new digital library products in targeted vertical domains.

• Reference linking for patent content: Seamless high-precision reference linking between patents and publications.
• Related content linking: Parity's content analysis engine hyperlinks closely related patents and research articles.
• Ontology integration: Parity's classification engine enables automatic classification of patent content into existing research-oriented ontologies or subject indexes in the domain.
• Search integration: Search for patent content can be seamlessly integrated into publication data search.