Accessing patent knowledge and exploiting it for the benefit of society is a complex and challenging endeavor for researchers in science. Therefore, to investigate the need for patent knowledge and its potential use in research, FIZ Karlsruhe and the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology e.V. (INP) in Greifswald piloted a needs analysis.
The results of the online need analysis survey conducted across several Leibniz institutes confirmed the necessity for patent knowledge in research and helped to identify major obstacles and gaps. Consequently, the "Patents4Science" project, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), will create a patient-centric knowledge graph based on Linked Open Data over the next three years. It will also have a modern information infrastructure for linking patent knowledge with scientific literature and other domain-specific information.
As an initial step, the Patent Knowledge Graph integrates domain-specific knowledge from plasma technology, additive manufacturing, and battery materials. The Patents4Science infrastructure will allow scientists to easily access and use the essential information in the patents, such as descriptions of technical processes and devices, properties of materials and active pharmaceutical ingredients, and details of specific biomedical processes. As a result, researchers will gain access to new approaches and solutions, experiments, or technical specifications that have not been published elsewhere via dedicated (semantic) information services.
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