From Patent Landscaping to Technology Intelligence

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Mr. Ryan Rozich is his aricle explained the basics of Technology Intelligence form Patent Landscaping.

The Evolution of IP Intelligence

The term patent search has been used for quite some time to describe the practice of finding patents that matched specific criteria – the business cases for these ‘searches’ usually revolved around patentability or prior-art searching.

The term patent landscaping means looking at broader trends such as if patent activity for a given area is increasing/decreasing, etc. Moving beyond patent landscaping, many IP professionals are now looking to answer broader technology intelligence questions such as “what is my IP position in this market”, “who are my small/large technology competitors”, “what are the legal/market/IP threats in this area”, “who would be a good partner candidate or in/out license target”, “what are the IP/legal/other risks in partnering or acquiring this company”.

These questions go deeper than simple patent searching or even patent landscaping since in order to answer those questions we need to look beyond patent data. Click to read more

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