There is information - product news, business news, patents, papers, articles...
There are tools - for databasing, searching, reporting and visualizing that information... (e.g. ThomsonInnovation, and many others)...
Everybody knows IBM is the defacto leader in creating patents... well, it didn't come for free... they spent efforts, time, money, and ofcourse brains.
Now, they are outsourcing atleast some of this patent creation business to machines... at least partially...
IBM patenting "Automated Patenting" (almost)... a tool/method to search for empty regions in patent landscape of a given portfolio… and later fill the gaps with new patents!!
IBM's US Patent 20080235220, published 25/Sep/2008
METHODOLOGIES AND ANALYTICS TOOLS FOR IDENTIFYING WHITE SPACE OPPORTUNITIES IN A GIVEN INDUSTRY
Abstract: A method for analyzing predefined subject matter in a patent database being for use with a set of target patents, each target patent related to the predefined subject matter, the method comprising: creating a feature space based on frequently occurring terms found in the set of target patents; creating a partition taxonomy based on a clustered configuration of the feature space; editing the partition taxonomy using domain expertise to produce an edited partition taxonomy; creating a classification taxonomy based on structured features present in the edited partition taxonomy; creating a contingency table by comparing the edited partition taxonomy and the classification taxonomy to provide entries in the contingency table; and identifying all significant relationships in the contingency table to help determine the presence of any white space.
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