A Short History and Outlook for the Patent Data and Analytics Industry

A presentation from Frank Tietze, Associate Professor and Head of the Innovation and IP Management (IIPM) Laboratory at Cambridge University provided for the EPO Patent Knowledge Week Conference on November 3rd 2021

Here are the slides from my today's talk at the Patent Knowledge Week run by European Patent Office. I try to look back on the IP data/analytics industry, current developments and a bit of an outlook.

He covered the following areas:

1. Analog, pre-digital patent data era
2. The early digital patent era
3. The growth explosion and consolidation of patent analytics
4. Al for patent analytics
5. The future, eg Blockchain and AI

The slides can be downloaded from the link below.