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http://dx.doi.org/10.5391/JKIIS.2017.27.1.072

Methodology of Prior Art Search Based on Hierarchical Citation Analysis  

Kang, Jiho (Department of Industrial Management Engineering, Korea University)
Kim, Jongchan (Department of Industrial Management Engineering, Korea University)
Lee, Joonhyuck (Department of Industrial Management Engineering, Korea University)
Park, Sangsung (Graduate School of Management of Technology, Korea University)
Jang, Dongsik (Department of Industrial Management Engineering, Korea University)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems / v.27, no.1, 2017 , pp. 72-78 More about this Journal
Abstract
Prior art search is a core process of technology management performed by inventors and applicants, patent examiners, and employees in the patent industry. As a result of insufficient academic research on a systematic prior art search methodology, the process has been often carried out depending on the subjective judgment of researchers. Previous studies on exploring prior arts based on semantics have also have the risk of underestimating the similarity of major prior arts due to the nature of patent documents where the same technical ideas are expressed in various terms. In this study, we propose an effective prior art search methodology based on hierarchical citation analysis, which provides a clear criterion for selecting core prior arts by calculating weights according to the relative importance of the collected patents. In order to verify the feasibility of the proposed methodology, a case study was conducted to explore the core prior art of one patent in the display field. As a result, 10 core prior art candidates were selected out of the 206 precedent patents.
Keywords
Prior art search; Hierarchical citation analysis; Patent citation network; Citation Weight;
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