EN:Evaluation

For the evaluation of patents a scale of stars is available.
Within a search project an evaluation criterion "Basic" with up to 4 Stars is available.
For a network or monitoring task individual evaluation criteria can be created and used.
It is also possible to create multiple evaluation criteria which then form an average value.

Assign evaluation

Patents can be evaluated in the result list as well as in detail view.
Evaluation within a search project in the result list.

In detail view a new evaluation can be assigned by using the Plus-Icon.

Subsequently the new evaluation is created similarly to the result list.

Evaluation History

All evaluations assigned in the past are saved in the evaluation history.
The specific history can be view in detail view.

Average value when using multiple evaluations

Once multiple evaluation criteria are set up in a monitoring task, an average value of the assigned evaluations is automatically created.

Example

The 3 following evaluation criteria were created:

• current importance
  • important for current projects?
  • Weighting(value) 100

• future importance
  • important for future projects?
  • Weighting(value) 50

• possibility of defeat
  • how difficult will it be to create a workaround solution?
  • Weighting(value) 80

Within the monitoring tasks these 3 criteria can be used for the evaluation.
The average value is displayed left of the patent number and is initially set to 0.

As soon as an evaulation was made using the 3 criteria the average value is calculated and displayed:

The average value is calculated in the following manner:

First, the weightings of the criteria are added.
This results in a maximum weighting of 230

The relevance for each evaluation is calculated using the following formula:
(selected stars / maximum stars) * (weighting / maximum weighting)

• current importance - (1/4) * (100/230) = 0,1087
• future importance - (4/4) * (50/230) = 0,2174
• possibility of defeat - (2/5) * (80/230) = 0,1391

Finally, these values are added and multiplied by 6.
Thus results: 0,4652 * 6 = 2,79