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Zipf's law applications in patent landscape analysis

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: New business insights are shown to be extractable from patent landscapes by the mathematical method of discrete Pareto analysis. By applying to patent publication distributions, a method analogous to that proposed by the linguist George Kingsley Zipf, metrics and methods of visualization are introduced which quantify scale, dominance and consolidation of a patent landscape. The key results of the method are illustrated in the Zipf plot of assignee patent publication count versus assignee rank for the lithography patent landscape shown below.

Source: World Patent Information

DOI: 10.1016/j.wpi.2020.102012

Author: Michael E. Adel

Language: English

Topic: Intellectual Property and Patents

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $1,900

OpenAlex ID: W3106907327

FWCI: 1.143

Cites: 14

Cited by: 7

Related to: 10