Social Networks and the Patent Information Industry

“The Future is already here - it’s not very evenly

distributed.” -William Gibson

about the socializing of patents by @herrkrueger

Saturday, March 3, 12

introduction of @herrkrueger


introduction of @herrkrueger


AMAZONISATION OF IT

about cloud computing by @herrkrueger

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CHARACTERISTICS OF CLOUD COMPUTING

Resource Abundance

Distributed Systems

Designed as a Platform

Designed for Failure



BIG SOCIAL DATA


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SOCIAL OBJECTS

Text

Pictures

Video

Links

Music

Places

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about socializing patents by @herrkrueger


SOCIAL ACTIONS

Like

Tweet

Comment

Check-In



ACTIVITY STREAMS

actor + verb + object

the story of a person performing an action on or with an object

http://activitystrea.ms/specs/json/1.0/





SOCIALIZING GOES ON

Presentations

Wine, Beer

Books

...

Patents?



THE SOCIAL DIVIDE


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THE PATENT DATA SILO

In 2009 around 110 offices filed

1.700.052 patent applications

759.287 patent grants

2,4 TB of Patent Data

http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/patents/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachelrusinski/526260022/




THE PATENT DATA SILO

Between 1883 and 2009 got filed

68.293.583 patent applications

32.601.271 patent grants

99, 27 TB of Patent Data


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A SOCIALIZED PATENT

actors: authority, inventor, assignee, user,...

actions: filing, listing, reading, infringing,...

objects: application, grants, query, hitlists,...



IMAGINE...

Based on:

your network of people & companies

your interests

your technological fields you are working

your current and former employees

all patent-centric ‘activities’ are visible to you...



IMAGINE...

Inventor D. Limacher at Schindler filed an invention about a hydraulic elevator transmission system at DPMA and 36 other Authorities. http://wcsm.pa/Ob2Zl

DPMA issued 2 inventions from D. Limacher at Schindler after 3 years and 2 months. http://wcsm.pa/Ob2Zl



http://wcsm.pa/Ob2Zl





IMAGINE...

We had answers to questions like:

Who else (in my company) found my patents?

Who else considered my patents relevant?

How many others accessed my hitlist/query?

Which patents have I seen most in the last year?



“I want to be able to provide every book ever published,

in any language, in sixty seconds.”

-Jeff Bezos

about social design by @herrkrueger


USER EXPERIENCE

ahead: display search terms & results while typing

realtime: display updates without reload

endless: scroll smoothly through longer hitlists

responsive: adapt to user’s screen space

















THANK YOUCREDITS:

MICHAEL RUSTED, ALI LEHMANN @MTCR. STULLE @EDENSPIEKERMANN

R. FLAMMER, J. KIESBAUER @EPO VIENNAD. LIMACHER, P. HIRSCHBERGER @INVENTIO AG

„WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO?” JEFF JARVIS

„REWORK” JASON FRIED

„HERE COMES EVERYBODY“ CLAY SHIRKY

J. BEZOS & TIM O‘REILLY & MARC BENIOFF


https://twitter.com/%23!/wcsm

https://twitter.com/%23!/wcsm

http://edenspiekermann.com/

http://edenspiekermann.com/

http://www.epo.org/

http://www.epo.org/

http://www.schindler.com/

http://www.schindler.com/

http://www.buzzmachine.com/what-would-google-do/

http://www.buzzmachine.com/what-would-google-do/

http://37signals.com/rework/

http://37signals.com/rework/

http://www.shirky.com/

http://www.shirky.com/

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/jeff-bezos-at-wired-disruptive.html

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/jeff-bezos-at-wired-disruptive.html

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