PIUG 2022 - Tuesday

T U E S D A Y M O R N I N G

Patent Analysis: The Once and Future Discipline, Revisited Tony Trippe (Patinformatics, LLC) 11:30 am – 12:00 noon

ABSTRACT It can be said that the modern age of patent ana lytics started in 2003 when the discipline was the theme of the PIUG Annual Conference in Chicago. That year and the proceeding few also saw the pub lication of seminal papers on the topic appearing in World Patent Information (WPI). Professor Holger Ernst and I were the keynote speakers at the 2003 PIUG Annual Meeting, and the authors of some of these seminal papers. My keynote address at PIUG 2003 was entitled, Patent Analysis: The Once and Future Discipline, and it sought to share the earliest foundations of patent analysis with current patent information professionals who were mostly focused on patent information retrieval. The talk also shared some perspectives on the future of the discipline and how it might impact the lives of patent informa tion professionals as they developed in their careers. In 16 years later a lot has changed and patent analy sis has continued to grow and evolve as a discipline. This can most especially be seen in the number of highly cited and downloaded papers from WPI that cover this topic. This talk will focus on the advances made in the field in the last 16 years, and once again speculate on what the future may hold for analysts and the broader patent information community.

BIOGRAPHY Anthony (Tony) Trippe is Managing Director of Pat informatics, LLC. Patinformatics is an advisory firm specializing in patent analytics and landscaping to support decision-making for technology-based busi nesses. In addition to operating Patinformatics, Mr. Trippe is also an Adjunct Professor of IP Management and Markets at the Illinois Institute of Technology teaching a course on patent analysis, and landscapes for strategic decision making. Tony is an influential thought leader in the patent analysis space, wrote the Guidelines for the Preparation of Patent Land scape Reports for the World Intellectual Property Organization, has been named one of the Top 300 IP Strategists by IAM Magazine and is the developer of ML4Patents.com the industry’s online resource for the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the field of Intellectual Property.

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