Monitoring nanotechnology using patent classifications

Patents are an essential information source used to monitor, track, and analyze nanotechnology . When it comes to search nanotechnology -related patents , a keyword search is often incomplete and struggles to cover such an interdisciplinary discipline. Patent classification schemes can reveal far better results since they are assigned by experts who classify the patent documents according to ...

In this paper, we present the most important classifications to search nanotechnology patents and analyze how nanotechnol-ogy is covered in the main patent classification systems used in search systems nowadays: the International Pat-ent Classification (IPC), the United States Patent Clas-sification (USPC), and the Cooperative Patent Classifi ...
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In this paper, we present the most important classifications to search nanotechnology patents and analyze how nanotechnology is covered in the main patent classification systems used in search ...
Patents are an essential information source used to monitor, track, and analyze nanotechnology . When it comes to search nanotechnology -related patents , a keyword search is often incomplete and struggles to cover such an interdisciplinary discipline. Patent classification schemes can reveal far better results since they are assigned by experts who classify the patent documents according to ...

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