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Please predict whether this patent is acceptable.PATENT ABSTRACT: A method for measuring technology trends that includes providing from a plurality of inventors in a technology field a baseline of technical documents published in a time period, and detecting a number of technical document publications having at least one inventor in the plurality of inventors in the technology field. The method further includes comparing the number of technical document publications to the baseline of technical documents published in the time period. If the technical document publications exceed the baseline, the number of technical document publications are trending. Comparative analysis of the content for the technical document publications that are trending determines a measurement of similarity in technical field subgroups. Trending technical subgroups are extracted from the technical document publications that are trending with a degree of similarity above a threshold as a target technical group that is a trend.