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We developed a "patent mining" tool for our company utilizing XML. Corporate leaders wanted to provide company-wide browser access to our corporate patent portfolio as well as in-depth analysis of our patent data. They saw this as a way to assist our company in strategic and investment decisions and to encourage innovation and collaboration. The highly structured format of patent data led easily to a hierarchical representation in XML. The use of XML made programming simpler. We only had to load the XML document containing the patents into a browser, so there was no need to extract from a database. In addition, we were able to present the same XML data in multiple ways, using various XSL stylesheets. XML provided a very straightforward, inexpensive, and effective way to meet this requirement for patent mining. Packaged software is available that imposes structure on... (more)