quantity of patents is measurable, but how would you measure the originality of the patents? Patents can be cited, one way would be to measure the number of cit

quantity of patents is measurable, but how would you measure the originality of the patents? Patents can be cited, one way would be to measure the number of citations - but here it says that this is a feature of US patents only https://www.quora.com/Why-do-patents-cite-other-patents https://www.quora.com/Why-do-patents-cite-other-patents Is there another possible way to measure the impact of a patent that could apply to all national patent offices?