19. The computer program storage device of claim 18 further comprising, for each industry class in said industry classification, computing a distance between an industry originating with said initial document and said industry class wherein numeric vectors are used to determine closeness of respective industries to said industry originating with said initial document.
18. A computer program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method for use with at least one initial document describing a technical concept suitable for licensing potential and a set of intellectual property documents having a statistical similarity to said initial document, the method comprising: partitioning said set of intellectual property documents into a plurality of document categories; classifying said set of intellectual property documents by at least one of an industry classification and an assignee classification; constructing a contingency table that includes a listing of said industry classification and said assignee classification for one or more document categories; using said contingency table to find significantly-related industries via said industry classification; and using said contingency table to find significantly-related assignees via said assignee classification.