Week 10: The Landscape Survey of US-Sino Patents Regarding Neuroimaging Technology

Bonjour. At last we’ve reached the final week of my senior project: The Landscape Survey of US-Sino Patents Regarding Neuroimaging Technology. It’s been a long trip, but it’s almost over.

The first thing I did this week was create a graph of the different types of applicants that filed patents in China. Because I’m showing the composition of how much multiple parts make up of a whole, I decided to use a pie chart for this. This graph showed who filed these patents, like enterprises, universities, individuals, governments, etc. Following the trend of making pie charts, I made another showing the composition of different types of patents.

While researching during this final chapter of the project, I noticed something interesting. Most of the patents filed in China weren’t from Chinese applicants. I looked further into this using the tools Incopat provided me and it turned out, only around 25% of Chinese patents were filed by Chinese applicants. What’s even more interesting: the US filed an entire 33% of the patents related to neuroimaging in China. Further research showed that China only filed 1% of the neuroimaging related patents in the US, in contrast to the US’s whopping 70%. After realizing this, I decided to add new graphs to my project regarding each country’s cross-border applications. I added graphs of the patent trends and leading applicants for both the Chinese patents in the US, and the American patents in China.

And so concludes my 10th week of work on my senior project. These 10 weeks of work have provided me with a very dense and information packed result, and I intend to spend the next few days I have left polishing it into an SP-worthy product.