Method and System for Analyzing Patent Family Information

摘要

A method for analyzing patent families. The method comprises: receiving a patent publication number; retrieving a family data set for the patent publication number, where the family data set includes a plurality of family member data sets, where each family member data set is related to the patent publication number and where each family member data set includes a publication number and country; storing the family data set; and graphically displaying a relationship between two or more of the plurality of family member data sets in the family data set.