Patent Landscape
 

Patent Landscape is a search for understanding a particular technology area. Many companies order the patent landscape to create an internal database of relevant patents revolving around the technology of interest. The trends that emerge from the patent landscape can be very helpful for taking business decisions, R&D decisions, gaining insights about competitors, helping R&D team and finding out the white spaces in the underlying technology. 

The landscape analysis is most useful while developing a new product or at the time of research and development to identify the gaps in the area of interest. Often, the patent landscape is clubbed with the non-patent landscape to get a complete picture of the technology. Our team at IP Signals can design a Patent Landscape report that provides executives, technologists, and investors with IP business intelligence about how and to what extent your competitors are protecting their innovations in critical areas of technology. We start with a broad patent landscape and progressively refine the analytics at several levels of detail. This value-rich perspective provides the actionable insight you need to support strategic business and investment decisions and strengthen your patent portfolio.
 

Our Search Strategy : 

• Data extraction - All the patents in the specified technology domain are extracted. Identification of the client’s purpose and collecting necessary patent documents are made. Background study is thoroughly done.

• Data filtration - Relevant patents are identified. Title & Abstract based analysis. Elimination of irrelevant patents.

• Data extraction - Relevant forward-backward references of the relevant patents are extracted and added to the previous set of relevant patents.

• Data analysis - Full-text analysis and elimination of irrelevant patents are done.

• Data Categorization - Technology level and application level categorization of the patents is carried out.[IPC Class, US Class, CPC, ECLA].

• Inventors and Assignee Based Search - Separate search with broad keywords was conducted accordingly.

• Normalization of the data - Data Cleaning.

• Non-Patent Literature Search - Databases were shortlisted, and a thorough search was conducted.

• Patent intelligence - Various business intelligence charts are generated based on the classification of relevant and bibliographic information.

• Report Preparation - The results were documented and provided to the client.

Patent Portfolio Analysis
 

The portfolio analysis is performed to identify the relevant strength of all patents within the portfolio and if need be to understand how and which of the patents in the given portfolio are potentially infringed by the existing products in the market. An effective portfolio analysis helps in identifying where the value is, in the patent portfolio. Over the period, valuable patent assets can be “lost” in the complexity of the wider portfolio if worthless assets are maintained unnecessarily, and their true value through a sale or licensing is never realized.

We offer customized Patent Portfolio Analysis services for companies. In a typical patent portfolio analysis our research team accomplishes the following:

• Data extraction - All the patents in the specified technology domain are extracted. Identification of the client’s purpose and collecting necessary patent documents are made. Background study is thoroughly done

• Data filtration - Relevant patents are identified. Title & Abstract based analysis. Elimination of irrelevant patents Data filtration - 

• Data extraction - Relevant forward-backward references of the relevant patents are extracted and added to the previous set of relevant patents

• Data analysis - Full-text analysis and elimination of irrelevant patents are done

• Data Categorization - Technology level and application level categorization of the patents is carried out.[IPC Class, US Class, CPC, ECLA]

• Inventors and Assignee Based Search - Separate search with broad keywords was conducted accordingly 

• Normalization of the data - Data Cleaning

• Non-Patent Literature Search - Databases were shortlisted, and a thorough search was conducted

• Patent intelligence - Various business intelligence charts are generated based on the classification of relevant and bibliographic information

• Report Preparation - The results were documented and provided to the client

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Patent Valuation 
 

Patents are perhaps the most complex of the intellectual properties in a technical sense. Understanding the patented technology is a key element in providing accurate patent valuations. We strive to comprehensively understand your assets and specific situation before beginning our analysis. Once we have a thorough understanding of these important factors, we carefully conduct our research and analysis so that it captures all relevant inputs and considers all possible aspects necessary to provide you with accurate, useful and complete information.

Our consulting teams are made up of individuals with the law, business, and technical degrees. Together, they support your needs and goals through in-depth valuation and qualitative analysis developed using one or more of the following methodologies.