Charting Types Explained
Below is a brief explanation of each type of chart in AcclaimIP. Some are very straightforward, but some might be slightly more confusing without knowing what they are designed to show.
20 Chart Types
Notice that there are 20 chart types across the top of the Charts package. Some of these may not be available to you, depending on what access to AcclaimIP your organization has purchased. However, the below is a breakdown of what each type of chart is. Please remember, though, that what is in the chart is based on what set of documents you are pulling the chart from.
Assignee - This chart is designed to show up to the top 100 assignees in your set. There may be some documents in more than one assignee set (e.g., if two assignees filed jointly).
Inventor - This chart is designed to show up to the top 100 inventors in your set. There are often some documents in more than one inventor set (e.g., documents that have two or more inventors listed)
Agent - This chart is designed to show up to the top 100 agents in your set.
Examiner - This chart is designed to show up to the top 100 patent examiners in your set. Note that this is US Examiners, only. You do not have to reduce the initial search set, however, just to US documents. The system will do this for you, regardless of how many countries/authorities you have in your initial search set.
Country - This chart is designed to show up to the top 100 countries/authorities in your set. Note that for this chart, if you are looking for EP Validated States, you must switch the chart from Country to EP on the far left of the top toolbar.
Date - This chart is designed to show the dates of the documents in your set. Note that some date types, such as the Estimated Expiration, are US only.
Class - This chart shows up to the top 100 classes, including CPC, IPC, and the old US classes.
Private Class - This chart is designed only for those with the AI Classifier.
Art Unit - This chart shows the top US Art Units. Note that this chart is US only.
Bubble - This chart is designed to show you the different averages of the initial search set. For example, you may want to see the average publication date broken out by the top CPC classes in your set.
Evolution - This chart is designed to show you the evolution over the past 10 years of the patents in your initial search set. For example, you may want to see the number of documents filed per year over the last 10 years broken out by the top assignees in your set. This chart can be very useful for seeing who is coming into and out of a space, for example.
Renewal - This chart is designed to show you the US abandonment, survivorship, and maintenance fees of your set.
Citation - This chart is designed to show you counts for the top 100 assignees for forward or reverse citations in your set (i.e., who has cited your set, and who your set has cited, respectively). The chart can also show both at the same time (i.e., a tornado chart).
Rejection - This chart is designed to show you counts for the top 100 assignees for forward or reverse rejections in your set (i.e., who your set has been used against or who has been used against your set in a 102 or 103 rejection). Rejection data is US only, but you do not have to reduce your initial set to just US documents. The system will do this for you, regardless of how many countries/authorities you have in your initial search set.
Score - This chart is designed to show you counts of documents from your initial search set broken out by AcclaimIP's different scores.
Concept - This chart is designed to show you a word cloud of terms the system determines are important. Note that you can only do up to the first 1,000 documents from your initial search set.
Correlation - This chart is designed to show you a comparison of various data points from your initial search set. You can change the data points based on your needs. Note that you can only do up to the first 1,000 documents from your initial search set.
Note that each chart has various options in the top toolbar that allow you to change things like date ranges, date types, assignee types, etc. Each chart has a unique set of configurations. Also remember that you can change the chart in other ways, including the labels, adding series (see the next section called "Multi-Series Charting"), etc., on the panel on the left of the chart.
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