A patent landscape is an analysis of patent data for a particular technology, product company (ies) in specific countries within a given time frame that reveals valuable business, competitor, scientific and technological trends. Landscape reports generally focusses on a product, industry, competitors, technology, specific time period or geographic region.
Based on the output required, parameters are fixed for Patent Landscape and Patent Landscape Report (PLR) is prepared with pictorial and graphical representation of the data obtained. Patent landscape Report provides a comprehensive snapshot of the patent trends and hence useful for the businesses, especially when new markets are to be explored for the business or research in new areas is to be planned.
State of the art (SOA) or Patent Landscape Search are the terms which are used inter-changeably in the industry, however the main difference is that patent landscape report is more detailed and deeper. State of the art is the broadest among the other types of patent search, wherein a state-of-the-art search is essentially a market survey which is performed to identify the existence of similar technologies in the market. This search also provides findings regarding the competitors and indicates the trend of technology in the domain of interest.
Patent Landscape is specifically useful at the time of:
- Starting research in new areas of technology and companies need to understand the trends, active research areas and status of patents available.
- Exploring new markets for business, with respect to specific product (s). The patents so obtained to perform prepare patent landscape report may also help to give idea about potential patent infringement risk.
- Getting to know patent filing activities of the competitors because after filing patent application, it gets published on official website of patent office of given country. Compilation of published patent applications and granted patents helps companies to understand the patent filing trends and active research areas of their competitors.
- Innovations that are happening in a specific area of technology. This can be understood well with respect the a given period of time or based on specific country (ies).
- Assess the research happening in a given area of technology which also sometimes opens up opportunities in terms of IP licensing as well as Merging & Acquisition.
Depending upon findings of technology landscape analysis, an appropriate IP & business strategy which is compliant with the company’s business strategy may be devised and implemented. Technology landscape is performed in following steps:
Step 1: Before starting patent landscape it is important to define scope of landscape and the output expected. There is so much data available that if scope is not defined well, volume of the patents extracted becomes difficult to manage.
The timeline shall be fixed carefully depending upon how old patents are required to be analysed
List out the parameters required, such as, top patent filing companies, country wise trend for a product
Step 2: Formulate appropriate key words and search strategies to extract right and appropriate patents
Step 3: Categorize the extracted patents based on parameters and output expected.
Step 4: Compile the data obtained into graphical representation for easy understanding
Step 5: Write description of each parameter taken into consideration and prepare the final report
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Deliverables: Patent Landscape report in PDF along with all prior art search data in excel sheet
Timeline: 3 business days
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