Patent Landscape

Patent landscape reports offer a comprehensive overview of the patent landscape for a particular technology, either on a regional or global scale.

These reports are crucial for making strategic decisions regarding investments, research and development (R&D) priorities, competitors' activities, and assessing freedom to operate (FTO) when launching new products. 

Patent landscape reports drafted by Ingenious e-Brain provide in-depth technical insights supported by analytics, catering to a diverse audience, including R&D professionals, academic institutions, legal experts, and business personnel. Our seasoned IP experts leverage their deep expertise, various renowned & in-house analytical tools, and advanced AI technologies to uncover critical insights for specific patent types. Below is the illustration of IeB's 3-phase patent landscape unveiling approach. 

Detailed analysis covering: - 

a.      R&D Insights – components, compositions, methodologies, processes, alternative technologies, and so forth. 

b.      Business Insights – Technological advantages, challenges, areas of high and low activity, future opportunities, competitors, licensing, and collaboration prospects, among others. 

c.      Legal Insights – Duration of patent protection for key technologies across all stakeholders, legal obstacles in technology, and potential requirements for claim adjustments. 

  Why is Patent Landscape Search imperative? 

·         To gain insights into intellectual property (IP) related to products and technologies  

·         To identify prominent technology stakeholders 

·         White space analysis 

·         For monitoring the development of technology 

 Why Ingenious e-Brain for Invalidity Study? 

·         We offer technical insights backed by analytics and infographics 

·         Whitespaces are highlighted for future opportunities 

·         We provide distinct analysis and insights into the latest cutting-edge research 

·         Rapid and tailored Landscape service 

·         We utilize advanced analytical tools to conduct thorough patent searches 

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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 landscaping can framework the existing technical field. It can quickly outline the technical fields that focus on development and white space, which might tell future R&D tactics.

The early patent landscaping is distinct from the traditional searches to evaluate patentability search as, at this stage, a technical solution might not exist. This is the case where landscaping helps during the scoping of an R&D activity.

The main key benefit is the starting recognition of existing solutions. Taking patent landscaping services earlier enables strategic decisions regarding product development. The outcome might suggest a white space prospect.

Additionally, wherever technical disclosures are originated, analysis can mark the available technical areas. The crowded landscape areas are not likely to boost wide patent rights while recognizing unoccupied fields of the technological landscape can assist in R&D efforts towards the field, which are more likely to gain huge patent protection.

When an existing solution is found, some options incorporate:

· Using existing solutions freely where there are not any active rights in countries interest.

· Licensing existing solution

· Gaining IP to strengthen business

All these strategies can save R&D expense and reduce the time of product development. This saves R&D expense which can be redirected to any other development.

Mainly patent landscape denotes all the required features of the area of land. Identically, "Patent Landscaping" is a procedure to build a pending patent overview or in the process in a specific area. In a way, the patent landscape can be defined as mapping pending, existing, and patents in the place field. There are several formats to report analysis, such as reports published.

Several Uses of Patent Landscaping Incorporate:

· Support development of an organization's IP strategy.

· The understanding of the competitive landscape in R&D areas.

· Recognizing the upcoming technologies trends within a domain.

· Supporting improved targeting of industrial and innovation policies and examining their influence.

· Recognizing the networks of knowledge and inventors among industry and countries.

Why Are Patent Landscapes Conducted?

A patent landscape is done based on a particular reason. Generally, the patent landscape is done to understand one or more of the following:

· Businesses which look forward to developing a new product in a specific field

· Help organizations to grow and create business tactics or plans

· Assists organization recognize their competitors

· Assist organizations to determine the main field

· Minimizes the risk and recognize field for future growth

Advantages of Patent Landscaping

Patent landscape analysis assists in making an informed business decision and enhances the degree of confidence. Data gathered through the patent landscape enable the business to make decisions based on informed choice and evidence and recognize future growth areas.

The most important advantage you can have from patent landscape analysis is to incorporate deep insights into the product, technology, and competition you have selected to do research. From research, you can gain a large understanding which is below mentioned:

· General advancements/Technology trends — Recognition of promising fields of technology:

· Assessment of trends in technological sectors in relevant to larger areas

· Recognition of overdeveloped fields

· Development in duration and scope of patent protection

· Connections that exist among applicants and critical investors

How does the Patent Landscape work?

The perceptions of landscape analysis unfold hot spots as per competition, players, regions, market, and prospects for the business.

The patents can be apprehended by several keywords and class-based techniques. The search techniques might further incorporate assignees, citations, and inventors of recognized patents. Search parameters can be customized according to the specific needs of clients.

While examining, apprehended patents are characterized under several standards, and this stage gives a general idea of what exists in the present. As per areas of interest, patents are further analyzed to gain data as per need taxonomy.

This data points out the details of innovation in the existing state-of-art, which assists researchers in drawing differences with their innovation. This data is mainly represented as a collective analysis of characterized patents.

Insights of Patent Landscape Analysis

The landscape analysis is mainly represented in the graphic format, which shows a timeline trend- additionally separating distinct assignees, main markets. Some other impacting factors are also recognized in the landscape:

· Main players in the technical area of interest

· New applicants in the technical area of interest and recognizing any licensing opportunity

· Location with priority filings

· Top researchers for technical areas of interest. Recognizing inventors working in main sectors. This is important as part of R&D techniques to collaborate with the best researchers

· Application area of innovation corresponding to the location

· Technology classes with main research

· Data about innovation offers opportunities for acquisitions to enhance existing innovation.

· Timeline based comparison of different innovation in a sector assist in recognizing areas which are outdated, and which are upcoming

Why Choose Ingenious for Patent Landscape?

Ingenious e-Brain has a team of highly experienced professionals who offer patent landscape analysis solutions as per the goals. The team can provide custom-based patentability searches, which are excellent to perform non-patent searches for insights.

Utilizing this elaborated data, clients can modify data and get the insights as per their objective. Additionally, we also offer a visualization dashboard that helps the client dicing data and get insightful data as needed.

Significance of Patent Landscape Analysis

 

Patent landscape analysis is a comprehensive analysis of patents and scientific literature. An analysis is focused on the research area given by the client. A Patent landscape analysis shows the white space in the research area, IP trends to figure out the density of activity, and technology decay and rise. Patent landscaping is suitable for planning research in virtually any area of technology. Patent landscape analysis shows what areas are potentially rife with third-party patent problems for a given general field of technology. By contrast, what areas remain relatively free of third‐party patents ‐ and possibly are available for appropriation. Useful for

• Track the global activities of competitors and outline their strategies & strengths.
• Monitor R&D trends worldwide.
• Discover the latest technological advances in the area. 
• Spot potential white space in the marketplace.
• Identify new players in the technology space. 
• Identify technologies developed by various players.
• Monitor research collaborations in a technology area.
• Identify potential avenues for mergers/ acquisitions.

What are some of the steps involved with performing Patent Landscape Analysis?

The fundamental idea of patent landscape analysis, sometimes referred to as patent mapping, is to review and organize the patent activity in a technology area. Ideally, you have engaged a patent landscape team consisting of a patent analytics expert and experts from R&D, marketing, competitive intelligence, and legal that are familiar with the technology, area to be analyzed, and have time to commit to the project. Steps involved with creating a successful patent landscape analysis include:

 

1. Establish the purpose of the patent landscape analysis. Why is this patent mapping project being undertaken (i.e., idea generation, ‘white space’ analysis, design around, competitive intelligence, patent filing strategy/patentability, risk management/validity/freedom to operate, monetization, M&A, etc.)?
2. Determine which patent search and analytic software and/or third-party services will perform or assist in the project.
3. Your landscape team will agree on the boundaries of the technology area of focus. It includes considering whether to have product terms, technology alternatives, multiple application areas in the search, and to agree on the goals and outcomes of the patent landscaping project.
4. Determine which countries to include in the search, how far back in time to look, whether to have abandoned patents, family members, equivalent versions of patents, etc.
5. Perform preliminary searches across patents and technical literature and work with the team’s technical and market experts familiar with the technology area to identify a set of relevant keywords, patent class codes, and organizations working in the technical area.
6. Generate an initial training set of documents relevant to the technology area and review those documents to identify additional and refined technology, product, and application areas to categorize the patent information.
7. Use keyword, patent class code, citation mapping, and semantic search strategies. Identify lists of patents that are relevant to each technology, product, and application sub-area.
8. Review and sort the patents within each relevant technology, product, and application sub-category. It can be done through automated means (quick yet less accurate) using keyword and international class code searching. Or manually (time-consuming, yet very accurate) by reviewing Titles, Abstracts, and Claims. Manual review offers the additional benefit of adding meta-data, comments, and value rankings to each result. It will result in a more robust and valuable output. 

Our expert team consists of patent analysts who perform rigorous data mining, data visualization, and data analysis to generate a patent landscape that helps clients identify competitive and technology trends.  

Ingenious e-Brain provides intellectual property research & analytical consulting firm, including customized services in the form of Patent landscape analysis, Patent portfolio analysis, Patent searches (Prior‐art, Patentability, Invalidation, Infringement, and Freedom to Operate), Patent alert and monitoring, Trend analysis, Patent to Product mapping, and patent licensing. Our expertise lies in generating valuable IP intelligence from patent, non‐patent, product, and other technical & competitive information. We provide consistent, high-quality IP research & analytical services in electronics, telecommunications, medical devices, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, chemistry, mechanical, and many more. 

 

Patents and Its Unknowns

It is seen that about 80% of published technology and science information contained in patents is not published anywhere else. They are millions of published patents and application references available for review by the public. This humongous trove of information can be made useful by identifying critical and relevant references in a given technology and then by analyzing those references in a manner that provides information that can amount to actionable decision making.

What is the patent landscape analysis?

Patent landscape analysis which is often referred to as “patent mapping” is a multi-process, using computer software and human intelligence, to sort through, organize and extract vast amounts of actionable information. A completed patent landscape analysis project derives insights on filing/publication trends(Time-wise & Technology-wise), top assignees/key players within the technology and their technology-wise trends, top inventors working in a particular area, different inventions evolving over the years in a particular field, technology spread across different countries, and different categories into which the technology can be divided into (taxonomy) and their number and kind of patents filed in those categories. It would also cover the geographical distribution of patents filed specific to a domain or specific to a player, key/unique patents filed in a particular domain or by a particular player, R&D areas a company can focus-on for future production.

What would be the result of the patent landscape analysis?

The study would conclude results in the following categories:

• Patenting activities
• Major Companies or Universities
• Key Patents
• New Players
• IP Collaboration Networks
• Exploited Fields
• Uncrowded Areas
• In-License Opportunities
• Out-Licensing Opportunities

Types of patent landscape analysis

Essentially patent landscape studies are of two types, domain focused and player-focused or a combination of thereof.

Domain Focused

If the initial findings were conducted based on a patent search focus on a technical domain. The landscape analysis search helps to better understand a particular domain by using patent literature and derive insights based on a patent taxonomy extracted. This type of report can be used by R&D and product development teams.

A comprehensive study would be carried out on a domain focused landscape where the recent technologies are studied in-depth over the years and analyzed for further research.

Furthermore, this type of study also helps in identifying whitespaces. This is done by further analyzing the domain focused landscape for technical areas with low or no patent filing that are then identified as white spaces in the technology for further research.

Player Focused

If the initial set of patents was searched based on one or more players, this type of study is called player focused where the criteria in filtering the search would be focused on patent filers such as colleges, research units, companies, and government-funded organizations.

The studies focus on the type of patent filings done by particular players. It also closely monitors their research and business interests by analyzing their patent portfolio.

The combination of the two, player and domain focused studies results in a Competitive Intelligence Report (CTR), where a company is continuously monitoring the patent activities of one or more of its competitors. This would help a business to keep their teams well informed of the competitor’s activities and well-directed towards understanding the current market and its future trend.

This type of study also helps in carrying out M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions), where a company’s patent portfolio used to calculate its value in terms of intangible assets and its worth.