In the process of building our Life Sciences Index we learned a few things about why Life Sciences patents are different. They are different because of their content, the science, the inventions. But they are also different because of the way inventors describe their inventions, the complexity of the subject matter, the amount of new vocabulary created by inventors, and the convergence of science in the Life Sciences domain.
Here is a snap shot of some of what we learned:
The average non-life sciences patent contains 250 unique terms. Life science/Biotech patents average over 825 unique words in each patent.
The average non-life sciences patent has 10-20 columns of text. Life Science/Biotech patents have 40-80 columns.
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