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Forward Citations As A Patent Value Metric

Law360, New York (August 31, 2016, 11:15 AM EDT) -- In the constant struggle to find the best way to automate patent evaluation to find valuable patents quicker and more efficiently, different patent metrics are considered, discussed, re-evaluated and occasionally benchmarked. The number of words, unique words, concepts in claims, number of claims, backward and forward citations, priority and expiration dates, number of foreign filings family members, and even the number of inventors, are only some of the metrics mentioned and examined repeatedly....

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