Classifying Patents by Tracing the Chronology of Patent Citation Increments
Journal
2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Abstract
This paper proposes a new patent classification method that accounts for both time inflation and application year. We compare the annual citation increment of patents and classify the patents into four types: dominant, precocious, admirable, and late-recognized. Substantially different citation curves were obtained for different patent types. Additionally, early citation history was highly related to the probability of a patent being classified as important.
Type
conference paper