How Patent Landscape Help Businesses in Enhancing R&D Strategy?
It is a fact that each organization and industry domain has different IP policies and R&D priorities. But, all of them share an identical challenge whenever it comes to considering and capturing IP. But the real question is, at what point in time do they need to start? Businesses consider R&D initially, and then IP as research and development activities have yielded an intangible technical solution. Identically, academics perform early searches of published papers. However, with research and development activity mainly focused on the crowded technical fields, organizations and academics are starting to know the requirement to include IP strategy in their R&D activity. If managed well, IP can assist in boosting and focus R&D efforts and reduce the risk of investing in technological advancements, which might unnecessarily complicate existing prior art. Patent Landscaping Instead of searching for existing prior art for a solution in the innovation, patent lands...