Presentation and Analysis of Patent Information and Other Information

1 . A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors configured with computer-executable instructions:

accessing patent information;

accessing financial information comprising stock information of a company;

integrating the patent information and the financial information; and

displaying the patent information and financial information on a common interface.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the integrating comprises aligning patent events and financial events with respect to a timeline.

3 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

enabling a user to select among different times;

updating the patent information and financial information for the selected time; and

displaying the patent information and the financial information, as updated, on the common interface.

4 . A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors configured with computer-executable instructions:

accessing information associated with at least one of a patent number or a patent application serial number, the information including patent prosecution information and patent assignee information;

accessing financial information using the patent assignee information, the financial information comprising stock information of an assignee; and

presenting the patent prosecution information and the financial information in at least one of a paper document or an electronic document.

5 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising accessing litigation information using the patent assignee information and presenting the litigation information in the paper document or the electronic document.

6 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the paper document comprises a single page.

7 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the electronic document comprises active controls to link to additional information.

8 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the electronic document comprises a common timeline associated with an active control.

9 . A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors configured with computer-executable instructions:

determining a number of unique words in a patent claim;

determining a metric based at least in part on the number of unique words in the patent claim; and

using the metric as a dimension of a two dimensional shape.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the metric comprises one divided by the number of unique words.

11 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the shape comprises a circle.

12 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the area of the two dimensional shape diminishes with respect to an increase in the number of unique words.

13 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising repeating the method in response to amendment of the patent claim.

14 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising filtering the claim using a semantic filter.

15 . The method claim 9 , further comprising:

determining a total number of words in the patent claim; and

plotting a point using the number of unique words and the number of total words.

16 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising plotting a plurality of points for a plurality of claims.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the plurality of claims comprise claims from one or more patents.

18 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising repeating the method in response to amendment of the claim.

19 . A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors configured with computer-executable instructions:

processing an agency record pertaining to an intellectual property (IP) asset to identify aspects of the record that pertain to scope of the IP asset; and

generating a graphic to visual convey a scope of the IP asset and whether the scope changed as captured by the agency record.

20 . The method of claim 19 , wherein the IP asset comprises a patent, and the graphic visually conveys how the scope of patent claims changed during prosecution.

21 . A method comprising:

under control of one or more processors configured with computer-executable instructions:

presenting a graphical map of one or more regions of the world;

representing on the graphical map market-related information pertaining to a particular technology or product; and

representing on the graphical map patent-related information pertaining to one or more patents that are associated with the particular technology or product.

22 . The method of claim 21 , wherein the graphical map has multiple regions that are color coded to represent different market-related information.

23 . The method of claim 21 , further comprising first and second graphical maps juxtaposed to one another, and the market-related information is represented on the first graphical map and the patent-related information is represented on the second map.