Analysis of Business Method Patents in Türkiye: Trends and Inter-Relationships with Technology Fields

Business Method Patents (BMPs) have been a considerable option for companies to get a competitive advantage in the market. This paper focuses on the BMP applications filed to the Turkish Patent Office within a certain time frame in order to reveal the recent trends and potential inter-relationships with technology fields by topic modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and International Patent Classification (IPC) network analysis approaches. For topic modeling operation, the abstracts of the BMPs are used while attributed IPCs for those BMPs are the main anchors for the IPC network configuration. The findings on the final dataset containing 897 BMP applications show that active applicants persistently include technical characteristics of their industrial domain in their BMPs. That behavior consequently causes the BMP trends to shift into the main fields of those proprietors.