Intelligent patent information to guide your research and analysis
Struggling to make sense of patent data? If so, discover why leading researchers and IP professionals are drawn to Thomson InnovationSM, the premier IP research and analysis solution from Thomson Reuters.
Thomson Innovation 2.0 was successfully launched in December 2008 at the Online Information Conference (London), concluding a year of aggressive development that culminated with powerful analysis and visualization capabilities, additional Asian patent data in English and enhanced administration functionality.
David Brown, executive vice president of the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, summarizes the solution saying, “Time and again we hear how important it is for customers to not only be able to search complete, reliable information, but to also make it actionable. Thomson Innovation 2.0 directly addresses this need and further cements the product’s position as the world’s leading IP research and analysis solution,” enabling corporations to save time and increase productivity.
Analyzing volumes of patent data into meaningful, actionable intelligence is now only a mouse click away. Thomson Innovation 2.0 enables users to identify key competitors, technologies and trends with its new ThemeScape mapping functionality. This can transform a seemingly complex set of patent and non-patent documents into a hierarchy of common themes, and display them in a topographical landscape to easily spot predominant concepts and pinpoint areas of opportunity and risk. Users are thrilled with the ability to analyze everything from Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) content to scientific literature, bringing clarity to otherwise complicated document sets.
Another valuable timesaver is the clustering tool. This automatically groups patent and literature documents through the linguistic analysis of text found in user-selected fields, and establishes document relationships that enable the refinement of search strategies and the identification of new links between subject matter, authors and organizations. Similarly, powerful charting features turn records from search results into ranked lists or charts, while citation maps display all backwards and forward references of selected records in an interactive and graphical map, enabling users to trace the evolution or dependencies of technology through time.
Beyond these enhancements and new capabilities, Thomson Innovation 2.0 provides even deeper coverage of Asian patent data, including English translations of the titles, abstracts and all claims for Chinese utility models and Chinese applications, from 2007 to present. This is in addition to the already robust Asian patent coverage, and other global patent data, in Thomson Innovation, including the 41 patent authorities in DWPI.
Thomson Innovation is a recipient of the 2008 R&D 100 award, which recognizes the most technologically significant products of the past year, and the 2008 InfoWorld 100 award, which acknowledges the achievements of IT projects that exemplify intelligent, creative uses of technology to meet business and technical objectives.
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