Applying patent information to tracking a specific technology

Patents in general contain much novel technological information. This paper demonstrates that the usage of patent analysis can facilitate a unique scheme for tracking technology development. In this paper, the walking technique of the Japanese biped robot is tracked as an example. The searching meth...

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Main Authors: Chen-Yuan Liu, Shenq-Yih Luo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2007-10-01
Series:Data Science Journal
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Online Access:http://datascience.codata.org/articles/359