Abstract New business insights are shown to be extractable from patent landscapes by the mathematical method of discrete Pareto analysis. By applying to patent publication distributions, a method analogous to that proposed by the linguist George Kingsley Zipf, metrics and methods of visualization are introduced which quantify scale, dominance and consolidation of a patent landscape. The key results of the method are illustrated in the Zipf plot of assignee patent publication count versus assignee rank for the lithography patent landscape shown below.

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Zipf 法律在专利格局分析中的应用

摘要 新的商业洞察力可以通过离散帕累托分析的数学方法从专利格局中提取出来。通过应用于专利出版物分发，一种类似于语言学家 George Kingsley Zipf 提出的方法，引入了可视化的度量和方法，这些方法可以量化专利格局的规模、优势和整合。该方法的主要结果在下面显示的光刻专利格局的受让人专利公开数量与受让人排名的 Zipf 图中说明。