BRIDGING CULTURES

Explore global science and technology knowledge

The Lens is a world leader in providing professional search, analysis and management software for worldwide patents and global research scholarly data.

Serving global scholarly work, patent documents from over 100 countries, and biological sequences extracted from patents, The Lens bridges these cultures and links open knowledge artefacts and metadata with user friendly tools to inform effective, efficient and equitable problem solving.

Professional IP Tools

Global Patent Search

Our patent search capabilities offer advanced boolean functions, structured search, biological search, classification search, filtering and sorting options to find the most relevant and important patents.

Leverage the data and analytics provided by Lens.org to gain insights into emerging trends or innovations in industry, or to identify potential opportunities for new products or therapies, or identify potential partners or collaborators for joint research projects.

  • Search Analyse and Manage Patent Records

  • Mine patent claims to identify potential white space.

  • Market intelligence, horizon scanning, forecasting.

  • Key opinion leader (KOL) identification and monitoring.

  • Freedom to operate analysis and much more…

Scientific Research

Scholarly Search & Analysis

Lens serves over 200 million scholarly records, compiled, cleaned and harmonised. The full scholarly citation graph is provided for the first time as an open public resource.

Search millions of scholarly records, facet or filter by their granular metadata and view the joins with the patent dataset. The joins are reversible as they would enable you to link a patent search result to the cited scholarly works and vice versa.

  • Search Analyse and Manage Scholarly Works.
  • Citation Network Analysis.
  • Monitor research output from your organization.

  • Find and view open access full text and much more…

Precision partnering

PatCite: Linking Patents and Scholarship

Discover which works have influenced what patents and who is using works to build products and services.

The Lens has mined the global patent literature for citations of scholarly published work and created tools to explore which articles influence what patents, held by what institutions. Investors and funding agencies can find whether the science they fund enables outcomes for society through new inventions and products.

  • Learn which research has influenced what patents.

  • See who is using your scholarly work.
  • Discover experts in specific fields.
  • Explore networks of collaborations.
  • Visualise important linkages and much more…
Explore Biological Sequences

PatSeq: Exploring Biological Sequences

Search, analyse and share the biological sequences disclosed in patents. This is the world’s largest publicly available database with internal transparency metrics.

Choose among the 5 specialty apps available to you to search and analyse the DNA, RNA and protein sequences found in patents and how these can inform innovation or shape strategies for research or product development.

  • Compare biological patent holdings.

  • View sequence disclosures across jurisdictions over time.

  • Compare patenting activity at the chromosomal level.

  • Use DNA or protein sequences to find database matches and much more…

Measure Influence

In4M: Ranking Institutional Influence

The Lens uses citation-based metrics to explore, map and rank the influence of academic research on academia, enterprise and innovation.

The International Industry & Innovation Influence Mapping (In4M) uses citation-based metrics to map the influence of academic research on academia and enterprise. In4M explores, exposes and ranks the degree to which scholarly work output influences outcomes.

  • Discover and map the influence of your work.

  • See what research influence which inventions.

  • Discover experts & collaborators in a particular field.

  • Rank institutions based on a field of study.

  • Improve your impact narratives for funding applications and so much more…
Programatic Access

API’s and Bulk Data

The versioned APIs provide programmatic access to Lens scholarly works and patent records, with options for bulk data downloads provided too.

The versioned APIs provide programmatic access to Lens scholarly works and patent records, while options for bulk data downloads provide access to the genetic sequences in patents, as well as the corpus of scholarly works and patents.

  • Programmatic Data Access
  • Bulk data downloads for genetic sequences in patents.
  • Interoperable data with persistent identifiers.
  • Retrieve results from over 120 searchable fields and much more…
CURRICULUM VITAE

Professional Author & Inventor Profiles

Lens Profiles are composite author/inventor profiles based on ORCID records and enhanced with aggregated data from various sources.

Easily find and claim additional works or patents in the Lens and sync these with your ORCID Record. Use your Lens profile to share your work output including Employment, Education, Co-Authors, Mentions and Links.

  • Professionally present your work output with CV modules.
  • Display and share your publicly available collections.
  • Record your authorship of scholarly works and inventorship of patents.
  • Easily find your works and update your ORCID record.

  • Follow a profile to get notified of updates and much more…

The Lens is a brilliant tool to create IP transparency and enable open innovation strategies around digital sequence information. It provides a utility which otherwise can only be achieved with expensive subscription tools and is a “must have” for users both in the public and private sector.

Michael Kock, Former Head of Intellectual Property, Syngenta
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