Capturing and Tracking Performance of Patent Portfolio Using h -Complement Area Centroid

• Published in: IEEE transactions on engineering management Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 496 - 505
• Main Authors: Kuan, Chung-Huei, Huang, Mu-Hsuan, Chen, Dar-Zen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2013; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Bibliometrics; Centroid; Centroids; Citation analysis; Evolution; Graph representations; h -complement area; h -index; Indexes; Joining; Portfolio performance; Portfolios; rank-citation curve; Shape; Silicon; Studies; Tracking; Tracking control systems; Trajectories; Windows (intervals)

Assuming that only the bibliometric information contained in patent databases is available and that the citations received by a patent indicate the patent's value or quality, we propose to characterize the performance of a patent assignee's patent portfolio, in terms of both the quantity a...