Ehsan Mohiti
Abolfazl Bagheri
Seyed Kamal Tabaian

Patents are valuable technical and legal documents which are available to everyone free of charge. It has been someresearch about how to use these documents to determine the Technology life cycle (TLC). After reviewing theprevious methods, a simple step by step method has been presented to determine the TLC of a technology.Using thismethod the RFID Technology life cycle has been analyzed and the results have been compared with a previouslyresearched

Technology life cycle (TLC), Radio-frequency identification (RFID), Patent-Mining