Automatic Patent Analysis ; Examples - Deluxe Edition

The automatic patent analysis is now more and more important to boost innovation and to evaluate your ideas.Even if the academics do not use patent information to much, it is necessary today to take care of this invaluable information source. But to get the best picture of a subject or an area of application it is necessray to analyse large amounts of patents. To do so the use of APA is necessary and this book provides different examples of such analysis. At the end of the book different url addresses provide useful access to patent information avaliable through Internet.

Professor Dou is the Director of Atelis, a strategic intelligence work-room at ESCEM Business School (France), and comes with extensive experience both in academic and non-academic positions around the world. Former University Professor in France he is presently Research Professor at Peking University, Professor Advisor OUM Open University of Malaysia and Honorary Professor University Zao-Zhuang, China, associate member of the CESER (Conseil Economique Social et Environemental Régional PACA) and Member of the IAB (International Advisory Board) of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Viet Nam. He is one of the pioneers of competitive intelligence in France and in Brazil, and has put his experience to the benefit of such prestigious organizations as the European Commission, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), UNESO, NATO and CNRS, the national French center for scientific research. He is also active as consultant for various enterprises and institutions in France and abroad.