Citation link graphic considering patent families

Hi Bruno,

I value a lot the citation link graphic, it is of high value to identify key patents = most cited patents. But now this graphic is built by analysing patents and not "families of patents".

I mean, patents of the same family are not grouped automatically by MP. They are represented in different places without any link between them.

So the user must identify the patent families and represent all the patents of every family very close in the same place as "one invention".

Could it be possible to you to represent every patent family eg with a rectangle enclosing all the patent members?

Otherwise could you build the citation link graphic "based on families" instead of "based on patents"? In this case it would be ok to me to take the "patent head number" as the name of every family.

Thanks
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Juan Carlos Vergara

Hi Juan,

oh sorry for the regroupement, I think it was done by families.
I try to correct that or to add all patents number.
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Regards / Cordialement
Bruno Mannina
Technical Support / Support Technique