Two heads are better than one
Legal service provider LexisNexis has announced a new semantic search technology that will aid patent research efforts.
The patent research and retrieval service LexisNexis TotalPatent, the automated patent application and analysis product PatentOptimizer, and IP research across patent and non-patent literature conducted on the lexis.com legal research service will use the semantic search technology.
Semantic search technology uses the meaning of language as well as the words themselves to produce search results. LexisNexis has employed this technology for 18 months.
The new semantic search technology will continue to do this while also identifying multiple concepts contained within a single search query, meaning that a patent researcher will be presented with a variety of possible ideas that could relate to the search request.
“We believe that the most important brain in the patent research process is the researcher’s own brain,” said Steven Errick, vice president of research information at LexisNexis. “When the user experience is combined with the semantic search capability, it becomes a powerful tool that can deliver the most precise and relevant patent search results available in the industry.”
