However, patents are lengthy and rich in technical terminology; analyzing patents may require a lot of human effort.
Through analyses of the relevant retrieved documents, a quality assessment of keyword choice is provided, as well as determining focused IPC and Derwent Manual classification codes and terminology from original patent and Derwent documentation abstract titles.
This document, also published by the WHO, describes in detail some of the most frequently used terminology relating to patent safety.
Given that the majority of developing countries lack the domestic capacity or technical expertise to manufacture on-patent pharmaceuticals, the interpretation of this terminology is crucial for ensuring access to medicine for the poor in many developing countries.
Instead, you can build a small "vertical" search engine that indexes just that slice of the universe containing, say, patents and scientific journals.Also, if you know the terminology, you can give the search engine some semantic smarts.
It has been used for different reasons in consumer and commercial products over the past century, although "nano" terminology does not always appear in the patent or scientific literature.
To people without formal training in organic chemistry, the terminology used in chemical journals and pharmaceutical patents is so technical that it is effectively a foreign language.
This subtle difference in terminology could mean dire consequences for those who delay seeking patent protection.
Texts in patents have a particular writing style characterized by a rich technical terminology and an intentional vagueness in order to promote wide protection to inventions [ 8, 33, 34, 36, 38].
For scientific examples and a clear explanation of the newly implemented terminology, download "The Revised Interim Utility Guidelines Training Materials" from the USPTO Web site (" Patent" section).
