Find Out Who the Competition Is for a Specific Company by Identifying Who Is Citing Their Patents?
TOPIC: Looking at the patents your competitor is citing can help you find out about new products your competitor is developing. The number of patents a company cites often is extensive. A Patent that has been issued subsequent to the original patent and that lists the original patent as a cited patent is called a “citing patent.”
Use U.S.
Patents Fulltext (File 654) for an inexpensive way to see who is citing a company’s patents. In this example, you will search for patents of companies that have cited patents of Amgen, a pharmaceutical company, to find out who Amgen’s competition is.
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN 654
EXPAND PA=AMGEN
SELECT E3:E10
Click S1 > Tasks > Map
Check Patent Number Searched as Cited Patent [PNCT]
EXS
RANK PA
HOW TO...
1. After entering BEGIN 654 to open U.S. Patents Fulltext for searching, EXPAND to retrieve all variations of the patent assignee name.
2. SELECT all E numbers pertaining to Amgen.
3. In the Set Links pane, click S1 > Tasks > Map. |
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4. Check the field you want to map (Patent Number Searched as Cited Patent [PNCT]) and click OK.
This MAP command transfers the Patent Numbers (PN=) extracted from S1 into the Cited Patent (CT=) field.
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5. All of the patents citing Amgen patents are saved.
Press ENTER to create the SearchSave.
Now EXS the SearchSave created with the MAP command.
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6. Use the NOT operator to eliminate self-cites by Amgen (S S19 NOT S1).
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7. RANK the patent assignee field (RANK PA)
to see who is citing Amgen’s patents
most often. |
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8. Enter P or Page to see additional patent assignees.
VIEW entries from within the RANK menu or save entries and EXIT the RANK menu to continue searching.
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