Scores
| 360° Quality | The 360° Quality score is calculated as a weighted average of all the 4 contributing scores i.e., Citation score (CQ), Market Quality (MQ), Legal score (LQ) and Document score (DQ). |
| Legal Quality | The LQ score indicate the aggressiveness and investments of the company to protect the invention and is also a measure of its perceived threat to the competition. |
| Citation Quality | CQ Score indicates the impact of the patent in its technology space. The probability of a record with a higher citation score being used in company’s offensive strategy or for monetization is higher. |
| Intrinsic (Document) Quality | DQ Score is the intrinsic quality indicator of the patent and is based on its technical and structural content. |
| Market Quality | The MQ score is based on the global market coverage where the patent family is active and so is indicative of the overall market value of the patent. A higher MQ indicates that the invention is well covered and protected across different geographies and so is deemed to be more valuable. |
| Generality | The generality of a patent family is built as a Herfindahl index. Generality = where sij denotes the percentage of citations received by patent i that belong to patent class j, out of ni patent classes. A high generality score suggests that the patent had a widespread impact, since it influenced subsequent innovations in a variety of fields. |
| Originality | The originality of a patent family can be defined in the same way, except that it refers to backward citations. Thus, if a patent cites previous patents that belong to a narrow set of technologies the originality score will be low, whereas citing patents in a wide range of fields would give a high score. |