JP2010055623A - Patent information analyzing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a patent information analyzing apparatus capable of surely grasping an application status during an application period and sufficiently raising efficiency of an analyzing operation of patent information. <P>SOLUTION: The patent information analyzing apparatus comprises at least an input means and a display means, and is capable of displaying a patent map indicating an application starting period and an application end period on the display means based on retrieval conditions input by the input means, and is characterized in that an application status in an application period between the application starting period and the application end period as well as the application starting period and the application end period are simultaneously displayed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a patent information analyzing apparatus capable of displaying patent information extracted from a group of patent information based on a predetermined search condition as a new entry map.

  Conventionally, when analyzing patent information such as a CD-ROM patent gazette issued by the Japan Patent Office, the target patent information is extracted based on a predetermined search formula and the like, and created based on the extracted target patent information Patent map display devices that display various patent maps on a screen such as a display are used. Among the patent maps displayed by this patent map display device, for example, a new entry map is used as a map in which the application start time and the application end time in a specific technical field are graphically illustrated.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the new entry map specifies the applicant (A, B, C,...) On the vertical axis and the application year (or publication year) on the horizontal axis. By displaying the arrows 50 and 51 having different forms in the application start year and the application end year, it is possible to recognize that the interval between the arrows 50 and 51 is the application period. Although there is no patent document related to the new entry map, a patent document related to a general patent map is disclosed in, for example, Patent Document 1.

JP 2005-165859 A

  However, in such a new entry map 15, only the arrows 50 and 51 having different colors are displayed in the filing start year and the filing end year. However, it is difficult to grasp the status of applications within the application period from the new entry map 15, that is, at which time during the application period many applications are filed. It is difficult to raise

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and its purpose is to be able to reliably grasp the application status during the application period from the new entry map, and sufficiently increase the efficiency of patent information analysis work. It is an object of the present invention to provide a patent information analyzing apparatus capable of doing so.

  In order to achieve this object, the invention according to claim 1 of the present invention has at least an input means and a display means, and the application start time and application end time are determined based on the search conditions input by the input means. A patent information analyzing apparatus capable of displaying a patent map to be displayed on the display means, the display means displaying an application start time and an application end time, and an application in an application period between an application start time and an application end time The situation can be displayed at the same time.

  According to the invention described in claim 1, since the display means can simultaneously display the application status in the application period between the application start time and the application end time, together with the display of the application start time and the application end time, The status of the number of applications during the application period can be grasped at a glance and reliably from the new entry map, and the efficiency of patent information analysis work can be sufficiently increased.

  In addition, since the number of applications within the application period is displayed in barcode format by the display means, the number of applications can be easily grasped by the number and width of barcodes, and the efficiency of patent information analysis work can be improved. Can do.

The block diagram which shows one Embodiment of the patent information analysis apparatus concerning this invention Illustration of the display state of the new entry map Explanatory drawing of the main part Explanatory drawing of the display state of the conventional new entry map

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
1 to 3 show an embodiment in which a patent map display device according to the present invention is constructed using, for example, a personal computer, FIG. 1 is a block diagram thereof, and FIG. 2 is a description of a display state of a new entry map. FIG. 3 and FIG. 3 are explanatory diagrams of the main part.

In FIG. 1, the patent map display device 1 includes a control device 2 to which a CPU 3, a RAM 4, a ROM 5, an I / O 6, and the like are connected via a bus line 7. A drive 8 such as a CD-ROM including a keyboard 8 and a mouse 9 as an input means and an MO drive is connected to the input side of the I / O 6 of the control device 2 and various databases 11 are connected to a communication line. 12 is connected. Further, on the output side of the I / O 6 of the control device 2, a display 13 made up of a CRT (including a liquid crystal display) as display means, a printer 14 and the like are connected.

  This patent map display device 1 is set in the CD-ROM drive 10 based on a program read in advance by the CD-ROM drive 10 and stored in the ROM 5 of the control device 2, for example, a CD-ROM patent. The patent information of the gazette or the patent information from the database 11 obtained through the communication times 12 is searched (extracted) based on conditions such as search items input with the keyboard 8 and the mouse 9. The extracted various patent information is read by the CPU 3 of the control device 2 and the data is totaled to create a patent map to be described later. This patent map is output to the display 13 and displayed on the screen 13a. Alternatively, printing is performed by the printer 14.

  FIG. 2 shows a specific display state of the new entry map 15 as a patent map created by the patent map display device 1, which will be described below. First, in creating / displaying the new entry map 15, a technical field of interest (for example, required for creating the new entry map 15 by using a predetermined input screen displayed on the display 13 based on the program) Various conditions such as various classifications such as IPC) and designated items (search items) on the vertical and horizontal axes are input and set.

  Then, when a predetermined input is completed on the input screen of the display 13 and a creation display key (not shown) provided on the input screen is clicked, the control device 2 corresponds to an input condition (for example, a predetermined IPC). The target patent information is extracted, and for example, a new entry map 15 as shown in FIG. 2 is created and displayed on the screen 13 a of the display 13.

That is, in the new entry map 15, the applicant (A, B, C,...) Is designated as the vertical axis, and the application year (or publication year, etc.) is designated as the horizontal axis. For each applicant, a white diamond-shaped application start mark 16 as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed at the position of the application year of the patent information filed first (referred to as application start time) among the subject patent information. A black diamond-shaped application end mark 17 as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed at the position of the application year of the last filed patent information (referred to as the application end time). The application start mark 16 and the application end mark 17 are connected by a white bar graph 18, and a bar 19 is displayed at a predetermined position (application year position) of the bar graph 18.

  This bar 19 is provided in the vertical direction so as to be orthogonal to the bar graph that is long in the horizontal direction, and one narrow bar 19a is assigned to one application number. For example, when there are three applications, It is displayed as a bar 19b in a state where three bars 19a are continuous. As a result, the application status (number of applications) within the application period is displayed in a barcode format, and the portion where the bars 19a etc. are dense is the time when the number of applications is large. Indicates a short period.

  In the new matrix map 15, for example, when a predetermined bar 19a position or the applicant itself is clicked, bibliographic items related to the patent information of the part are displayed as a list on the same screen, for example. . Further, when there is a utility model application during the application period, the color of the bar 19a of this application is displayed as a color different from the color of the bar 19a of the patent application.

  Thus, according to the patent map display device 1 of the above embodiment, the marks 16 and 17 indicating the application start time and the application end time are displayed on the new entry map 15 displayed on the screen 13a of the display device 13. In addition, since the number of applications in the application period between the application start time and the application end time is displayed simultaneously, the status of the number of applications during the application period can be grasped at a glance and reliably from the new entry map 15, It is possible to sufficiently increase the efficiency of patent information analysis work.

  In particular, since the number of applications within the application period is displayed in a barcode system, the number of applications can be easily grasped by the number and width of the bars 19a, and the efficiency of the analysis of patent information is further increased. be able to. In addition, by changing the color of the bar 19a between the patent application and the utility model, it is possible to grasp these at a glance, and by clicking the predetermined position of the bar 19a, the applicant, etc., the patent related to the part Since the bibliographic items of information are displayed as a list, it is possible to analyze the patent information with higher accuracy by comprehensively using them.

  Further, since the application start mark 16 and the application end mark 17 are connected by a bar graph 18, the application period can be grasped by this bar graph 18, and a new entry map 15 that is easier to see than before can be displayed. Furthermore, since the patent map display device 1 can be constructed using a personal computer, anyone can easily operate according to the display on the screen 13a by incorporating a program in the personal computer in advance. It is possible to analyze the patent information thus obtained at low cost.

  In the above embodiment, the number of applications within the application period of the new entry map 15 is displayed with a bar 19a, etc., but for example, the numbers are displayed for each application year or the number of applications is concentrated in a short period of time. It is also possible to use a bar 19a, numerals, or other appropriate marks, for example, displaying only parts. Further, the display form of the application start time and the application end time is not limited to the rhombus mark shown in the figure, and the arrows 50 and 51 similar to the conventional one in FIG. 4 may be used, or other appropriate display may be used. The present invention can be changed as appropriate without departing from the scope of the inventions.

  The present invention can be applied not only to a display device constructed using a personal computer but also to a display device using various terminals.

1: Patent information analysis device 2: Control device 3: CPU
4: RAM
5: ROM
7: I / O
8: Keyboard 9: Mouse 10: CD-ROM drive 11: Database 13: Display 13a: Screen 15: New entry map 16: Application start mark 17: Application end mark 18: Bar graph 19, 19a, 19b: Bar

Claims (1)

Patent information held in a database or CD-ROM patent publication;
An input means for entering search conditions;
A control device having a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, and an I / O, and a display means for displaying a result of patent information analysis. A program stored in the ROM of the control device by inputting a search condition from the input means. Based on the patent information, and the extracted patent information is appropriately set by the CPU of the control device from the application start time to the application end time for the target items, and from the application start time to the end of the application. Create a patent map where the vertical axis is the subject item, the horizontal axis is the age, and the number of applications is expressed as the thickness of the bar. A patent information analyzing apparatus for displaying the patent map on the display means.

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