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The role of patent citations as a footprint of technology

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The fact that patents are documents highly constrained by law and structured by international treaties make them a unique body of publications for tracing the history and evolution of technology. The distinctiveness of prior art patent citations compared to bibliographic references in the nonpatent literature is discussed. Starting from these observations and using the patent classification scheme as a framework of reference, we have identified a data structure, the “technology footprint,†derived from the patents cited as prior art for a selected set of patents. This data structure will provide us with dynamic information about the technological components of the selected set of patents, which represents a technology, company, or inventor. Two case studies are presented in order to illustrate the visualization of the technology footprint: one concerning an inventor—Mr. Engelbart, the inventor of the “computer mouse†—and another concerning the early years of a technology—computerized tomography.

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  • Eduardo Perez†Molina, 2018. "The role of patent citations as a footprint of technology," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 69(4), pages 610-618, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jinfst:v:69:y:2018:i:4:p:610-618
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.23979
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