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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
MAP PNCT T
EXS
S S52 NOT S1
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. MAP cited patent numbers (PNCT).
This MAP command transfers the Patent Numbers (PN=) extracted from S1 into the Cited Patent (CT=) field. |
?b 654
File 654:US Pat.Full. 1976-2006/May 11
(c) Format only 2006 Dialog
Set Items Description
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?e pa=amgen
Ref Items Index-term
E1 1 PA=AMGCT
E2 1 PA=AMGCT CORP
E3 636 *PA=AMGEN
E4 3 PA=AMGEN BOULDER INC
E5 16 PA=AMGEN CANADA INC
E6 15 PA=AMGEN CANADA INC CA
E7 581 PA=AMGEN INC
E8 13 PA=AMGEN INC A CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF DELAWA
E9 1 PA=AMGEN INC A DELAWARE CORPORATION
E10 1 PA=AMGEN SF LLC
E11 3 PA=AMGLO
E12 3 PA=AMGLO KEMLITE LABORATORIES INC
Enter P or PAGE for more
?S E3:E10
S1 636 PA='AMGEN':PA='AMGEN SF LLC'
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5. All of the patents citing Amgen patents are saved.
Now EXS the SearchSave created with the MAP command. |
?MAP PNCT T
Processing MAP
Processing MAP
Processing MAP
Temp SearchSave "TD332" stored
51 Select Statements, 636 Search Term(s)
SearchSave TD332
1 SearchSave(s), 636 Search Term(s)
?EXS
Executing TD332
3 CT=US D332397
2 CT=US D339869
1 CT=US D450835
0 CT=US 20010002419
0 CT=US 20010007752
5 CT=US 20010016191
0 CT=US 20010027179
0 CT=US 20010056180
0 CT=US 20020006902
0 CT=US 20020009454
1 CT=US 20020009776
0 CT=US 20020010135
S2 12 CT=US D332397 + CT=US D339869 + CT=US D450835
+ CT=US 20010002419 + CT=US 20010007752 +
CT=US 20010016191 + CT=US 20010027179 +
CT=US 20010056180 + CT=US 20020006902 +
CT=US 20020009454 + CT=US 20020009776 +
CT=US 20020010135
0 CT=US 20020010318
0 CT=US 20020013258
0 CT=US 20020035094
0 CT=US 20020035240
1 CT=US 20020037557
0 CT=US 20020051785
0 CT=US 20020052488
0 CT=US 20020058322
. . . .
S51 0 CT=US 7029892 + CT=US 7033776 + CT=US 7033810
+ CT=US 7041691 + CT=US 7041796
S52 1564 S2:S51 |
6. Use the NOT operator to eliminate self-cites by Amgen (S S52 NOT S1).
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?S S52 NOT S1
1564 S52
636 S1
S53 1428 S52 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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?RANK PA
Started processing RANK
Processing 500 of 1428 records
Processing 1000 of 1428 records
Completed Ranking 1428 records
DIALOG RANK Results
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RANK: S53/1-1428 Field: PA= File(s): 654
(Rank fields found in 1403 records -- 1251 unique terms)
Page 1 of 157
RANK No. Items Term
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1 58 GENENTECH INC
2 58 UNASSIGNED OR ASSIGNED TO INDIVIDUAL
3 27 NANOGEN INC
4 23 CHIRON CORP
5 20 COR THERAPEUTICS INC
6 20 SCARBOROUGH ROBERT M
7 19 NOVO NORDISK A/S DK
8 17 ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
P = next page Pn = Jump to page n
P- = previous page M = More Options Exit = Leave RANK
To view records from RANK, enter VIEW followed by RANK number,
format, and item(s) to display, e.g., VIEW 2/9/ALL.
Enter desired option(s) or enter RANK number(s) to save terms.
?p
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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. |
DIALOG RANK Results
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RANK: S53/1-1428 Field: PA= File(s): 654
(Rank fields found in 1403 records -- 1251 unique terms)
Page 2 of 157
RANK No. Items Term
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9 17 TRANSKARYOTIC THERAPIES INC
10 16 CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF REGENTS
11 15 SEARLE, G D & CO
12 14 INHALE THERAPEUTIC SYSTEMS
13 14 PROCTER & GAMBLE CO THE
14 13 ACKLEY DONALD E
15 13 BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
16 13 MERCK & CO INC
P = next page Pn = Jump to page n
P- = previous page M = More Options Exit = Leave RANK
To view records from RANK, enter VIEW followed by RANK number,
format, and item(s) to display, e.g., VIEW 2/9/ALL.
Enter desired option(s) or enter RANK number(s) to save terms.
?exit
RANK results will be erased; have you saved all the terms
of interest? (YES/NO)
?Y
Exiting... (no terms were saved) |
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