PatSnap offers the following graphical analytics tools: Industry Overview, Inventor table, Assignee table, Classification analysis, Technology Concept, Geographical map and Citation map

Absolutely. You can input a set of patents and apply the analytics tools. You can also analyze the patents on your lists.  1. To analyze a set of patents you input, go to "Advanced Search" -> select "Citation Analyze" tab -> Input a set of patent number (one number per line) -> Click "Analyze". 2. To analyze patents on a list, click "Tools" -> Select "Lists" -> Choose a list -> Click "Analyze"

We obtained the citation counts from patent databases such as USPTO, EPO and WIPO databases.

The citation counts include patents from USPTO, EPO and WIPO.

Yes. Go to "Advanced Search" -> Click "Citation Analysis" tab -> Input a list of patent numbers (one patent per line) -> click "Analyze"-> Click "Citation Map" tab. the citation map will show up. 

One box represents one patent. The vertical line (which looks like a tail) represents the patent filing date. The left vertical line of the rectangcle box represents the issue date. The small number at the left end of the box is the number of backforward citations of the patent and the number at the right end is the number of forward citations.

That is because a small set of the patents are not in our database yet. We apologize for the inconvenience and we are adding more patent databases soon.

Sure. You can first choose how you want to group the patents (by inventor, assignee or classification), then you can use different colours to highlight different groups of patents. 

Double-click on the patent box. The rest of the patents will disappear and the target patent will be displayed at the center of the page.

Double-click the patent box twice. All the backward and forward citations will show up. You can click on those backward and forward citations to navigate along the tree.

We get the address of the patent assignee and plot it onto google map.

The filters below the map can help you. For example, you can click on an assignee name such as "3M Innovative properties company", we will find the 3 patents by the company and locate it on the map.  Click on the orange color balloon, you will see the details of the patents.