What does patent information include?

Patent information can be divided into the following five kinds of information, namely: (1) technical information: information related to the technical content of inventions and creations disclosed in patent documents such as patent specifications, claims, drawings and abstracts, and technical information related to inventions and creations indirectly provided through search reports attached to patent documents or related documents. Information related to the scope of rights protection and the validity of rights recorded in patent documents such as patent claims, patent announcements and patent registers. Among them, the claim is used to explain the technical characteristics of the invention and creation, clearly and concisely express the scope of protection, which is the core legal information of the patent and the basis for the patent to obtain legal protection. Other legal information includes: information related to patent examination, reexamination, objection and invalidation procedures; Information related to the legal status of patent right, such as grant, transfer, license, inheritance, change, waiver, termination and restoration, etc. (3) Economic information: There are some information closely related to the economic activities of the country, industry or enterprise in the patent literature, which reflects the trend of the economic interests and market share of the patent applicant or patentee. For example, information about the national scope of patent applications and the designated national scope of patent applications of international patent organizations; Information related to technology trade, such as patent licensing and patent transfer. ; Information related to patent pledge, evaluation and other business activities can be regarded as economic information. Competitors can know each other's economic strength and R&D ability by monitoring patent economic information, and master their own business development strategies and possible potential markets. (4) Descriptive information: information related to descriptive items in patent documents. For example, patent documents describe the information of the applicant, patentee, inventor or designer in the project; Patent application number, contribution number and national information; Information on the date of filing, publication and/or authorization of the patent; Priority items and patent classification number information of patents; And the invention name and abstract of the patent. Description project comes from library and information science and is used to briefly express the basic characteristics of literature. The description items of patent documents not only reflect the technical information of patents, but also convey the legal and economic information of patents. (5) Strategic information: technical information and/or economic information with strategic characteristics generated by searching, counting, analyzing and integrating the above four kinds of information. For example, through the statistics, analysis and research of the basic information of patent documents, the technical evaluation and prediction report and "patent map" are given. The Office of Technology Assessment and Prediction (OTAF) established by the United States Patent and Trademark Office 197 1 is a professional institution specializing in patent strategic information research. In the past few decades, the agency has studied patent activities in dozens of key fields, such as communication, microelectronics, superconductivity, energy, robotics, biotechnology and genetic engineering, and published a series of technical statistical reports and special technical reports. These reports show the rapidly rising technical fields and development trends, as well as countries and companies that are in the leading position in these fields. These reports are one of the most important patent strategy information, an important guarantee for formulating national macro-economic and scientific and technological development strategies, and a reliable basis for enterprises to formulate technology research and development plans.