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Analysis on the Characteristics and Value of Patent Examiner Citations
Received date: 2015-09-01
Revised date: 2015-09-20
Online published: 2015-10-05
[Purpose/significance] Patent citation analysis methods are widely used, but the value of patent examiner citations is often underestimated or even misunderstood, which needs to be clarified, for the reason that it is related to the understanding of the internal mechanism and potential value of patent literature. [Method/process] According to the subject of citations, patent citations include patent examiner citations and applicant citations. The comparison shows that these two types of patent citations have obvious differences. Compared with applicant citations, examiner citations have three main characteristics:firstly,assured technical correlation between citing patent and cited literature; secondly, format specification and high degree of standardization; thirdly, advantages in availability and quantity. [Result/conclusion] The value of examiner citations can be realized as a sort of litigation evidence, a measuring tool for knowledge flow and patent impact, or enterprise competitive intelligence.Application of big data technology will be helpful to the realization of the value of examiner citations. The fully mining of the value of examiner citations depends on sufficient disclosure of data from the review process, further standardization of patent citations and optimization of patent citation analysis tools.
Key words： patent citations; examiner; reference document; characteristics; value
Xiao Dongmei , Chen Ying . Analysis on the Characteristics and Value of Patent Examiner Citations[J]. Library and Information Service, 2015 , 59(19) : 6 -14 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2015.19.001
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