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The automatic patent analysis is now more and more important to boost innovation and to evaluate your ideas.Even if the academics do not use patent information to much, it is necessary today to take care of this invaluable information source. But to get the best picture of a subject or an area of application it is necessray to analyse large amounts of patents. To do so the use of APA is necessary and this book provides different examples of such analysis. At the end of the book different url addresses provide useful access to patent information avaliable through Internet.