The Ei Patents on Engineering Village

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The Ei Patents on Engineering Village Using
patent literature for technical
intelligence Inbar Yasur 05/09/2007
www.hipusit.info
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• What I will cover
• Magic Words and How To Find Them
• The Problem
• Thesauruses
• The wisdom of crowds
• Search Engine Tools
• Commercial Databases
• Pay As You Go
• Engineering Village

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The Ei Patents search tool is new on Engineering
Village. You can search and link to patent
content from the US Patent and Trademark Office
and European Patent Office in conjunction with
other databases such as Compendex and Inspec.
This enables you to derive knowledge from a more
meaningful base, as it is estimated that 80 of
patents contain scientific information not found
elsewhere. Results from patents and the
scientific literature are presented in facets
that allow you to quickly view the leading
inventors, technologies and countries in your
field
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Thesauruses
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Engineering Village Patents The Ei Patents search
tool is new on Engineering Village. You can
search and link to patent content from the US
Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent
Office in conjunction with other databases such
as Compendex and Inspec. Results from patents
and the scientific literature are presented in
facets that allow you to quickly view the leading
inventors, technologies and countries in your
field countries working on the invention youre
interested in
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Thesaurus Definition Ei Patents offers
you Reliable patent searching that presents core
patent information in facets so you can easily
search further on inventor, assignee or examiner
- or broaden your search Search across patents
and published engineering literature for a more
complete view of the existing knowledge on a
topic Links from a patent to its citations
within the published literature The ability to
focus your search on US or European patents
Immediate competitive overviews of leading
companies and countries working on the invention
youre interested in
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• General Thesauruses
• Thesaurus.com
• The Visual Thesaurus
• Merriam Webster
• Synonyms.com

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• Introducing Ei Patents on Engineering Village
• Ei Patents features hosted bibliographic
  searching of
• complete patent files of the USPTO and EPO
• Data supported by the full features and
  analytics available on
• Engineering Village
• Patent databases are searchable in conjunction
  with
• Compendex, Inspec and other hosted patent
  sources
• Allows researchers to effectively utilize the
  scientific
• information hidden within patent literature

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WISDOM OF CROWDS
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• AD WORD WIZARDRY
• Taking Advantage of the advertising aspect of Web
  search engines
• Overtures Keyword Selector Tool
• Tracks actual Yahoo! searches to suggest
  search terms on which to bid Example
• Google Adwords
• Enter keywords and Google suggests others
• Example
• Keyword Discovery
• KeywordDiscovery compiles keyword search
  statistics from over 180 search
• engines world wide, to create the most
  powerful Keyword Research tool.
• Example

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• Wikipedia
• General Words
• A meat analogue, also called meat substitute,
  mock meat,
• imitation meat or veat
• Drug names
• Reboxetine is an antidepressant drug used in
  the treatment of
• clinical depression, panic disorder and
  ADD/ADHD. Its mesylate
• (i.e. methanesulfonate) salt is sold under
  tradenames including
• Edronax, Norebox, Prolift, Solvex, Davedax or
  Vestra

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• Wikipedia
• Disease Names
• Rubella, commonly known as German measles
• Jaundice, also known as icterus (attributive
  adjective "icteric)
• Chemical Names
• Ozone

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• Buzzwords
• Search terms or concepts that greatly improve the
  relevance of a search
• Businessdirectory

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Engineering Village Engineering Village is the
premier web-based discovery platform meeting the
information needs of the engineering community.
By coupling powerful search tools, an intuitive
user interface and essential content sources,
Engineering Village has become the Globally
accepted source of choice for engineers,
engineering students, researchers and information
professionals.
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• Bibliography
• Finding and Using the Magic Words Keywords,
  Thesauri, and Free Text Search Marydee Ojala,
  Online. Medford Jul/Aug 2007 Vol. 31 ISS 4 pg
  40
• SLA Factiva Demo (PPT)

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