CASE STUDY：Giovanni T., PhD Candidate at University College London shares his Success Story with PatSeer

• Company Background

· Overview: University College London (UCL), a leading higher education institution in the UK, offers education from bachelor’s degrees to PhDs along with extensive research activities.

• Problem Identification

·Challenges: The primary challenge was conducting entity-linking exercises for patent data, specifically in sectoral analysis.

·Impact: The research project would have been unfeasible without a robust tool. PatSeer provided essential search tools and statistics necessary for the project’s success.

• Solution Implementation

·Discovery: PatSeer was recommended by an academic colleague.

·Selection Reasoning: The ability to download patent data while bypassing imprecise PATSTAT datasets was a decisive factor.

·Implementation: PatSeer facilitated the process by providing necessary patent data and

statistics to support research.

• Results and Benefits

·Improvements: PatSeer reduced patent search time from a full day to approximately 30– 60 minutes.

·Overcoming Challenges: The solution directly addressed and resolved the entity-linking issues.

·Metrics: Significant time savings in patent searches demonstrate the success of the implementation.

• Experience and Feedback

·Experience: The PatSeer team provided exceptional support, responding promptly to inquiries and organizing ad-hoc meetings as needed.

·Recommendation: “Yes, I highly recommend PatSeer. It’s an extremely advanced tool when you understand its full potential.”

• Future Plans

·Future Use: UCL intends to use PatSeer in subsequent research and acknowledges its critical role in the project’s success.

·Feature Suggestions: Increasing the data download limits (from 30,000/day to 100,000/day and monthly limit to 1,000,000) would be a significant improvement.