[WIPS Global] " Family Timeline " for patent family analysis

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What is Patent Family? 

; a patent collection filed in various countries related to each other based on a common priority application. The statistics of general patents are a mixture of a small number of significant patents and a number of patents with very low quality. Whereas, the statistics of the patent family can be used to derive the most valuable patent as a factor that can predict whether the patent applicant will enter the global market and invest, and market power through the invest. Because of this point, searching and analyzing patent family is very important. 

Let's look at the feature to search for and analyze patent family of WIPS Global.

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'Family Timeline', 

a feature that can quickly grasp patent family information. You can search for patent family in 75 countries including 12 countries such as KR, US, JP, EP, and PCT.

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  Patent family is searched by application or registration number.
Search by entering the number and it shows the overall family information of the searched patent. The user can check the application number, applicant, expiry date, number of patent family, patent family countries and priority number.

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For U.S. patents with changes, such as continual filing, divisional application etc., users can immediately check RA Analysis (Related Application Analysis), which shows the correlations between the related applications.

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  Patent family analysis results are provided in 4 types: 

Time Series View, Statistics & List, Family Country, and Legal Status.

  Time Series View,

shows priority date, application date, registration date, and expected expiry date in order of time.

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  Statistics & List, 

provides the total number of worldwide patent family by year along with the number of patent family in each country by filing year. Users can view the patent family list as well, it gives the details of each patent immediately. The list is linked to the SmartAngle which extract the statistic charts.

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Also provides the IPC, CPC and Applicant statistics which gives the number of filed patents by country.

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  Family Country,

 showing the distribution of the patent family filed by country on the map, the darker the color, the more patents there are.

Users can check the list of patents by country.

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   Legal Status, 

which allows you to check the status of patent family's legal administration events. You can check the status of patent rights by country with comparing the legal status of patent documents in each country.

With the Patent Family analysis, the global patent activities of the patent rights holder is  learned, and the market power is grasped. Hopefully you’ll try to get more specific results using SmartAngle or other analysis features.