IBM Sics Cloud on Drug Patents

Need to scour the world’s patent databases for a particular chemical compound? There’s a cloud for that. IBM has released the Strategic IP Insight Platform (SIIP), a cloud-based data analytics system designed to give a shot in the arm to businesses’ intellectual property efforts. The system searches the US Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization patent databases, as well as abstracts from MEDLINE, the US government’s scientific literature database.

SIIP is a cousin to IBM’s Jeopardy master: the Watson supercomputer. It’s essentially an extremely fast entry-level patent analyst. It can perform natural language searches across millions of patents and science abstracts and it can also look for images of chemical compounds. The system also provides visualization of patent information. IBM says the system extracts molecules and chemical information from patents and abstracts within 24 hours of publication...