Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

The The goal of Patent Mapping is to generate actionable intelligence from raw patent information, enabling timely, informed decisions. Intelligence is not just information. It is knowledge that has been specially prepared for a specific business need. Most of the professional are involved in data production and fancy representation, not intelligence. Here comes the expertise in converting the raw data into actionable intelligence. Patent information is content rich but often complex and inaccessible. Patent mapping is the only way highly complex patent information can be put into “plain English”, i.e., understandable form. Rational patent mapping creates actionable intelligence from raw patent information. Patent mapping intelligence has many applications, including avoiding undue risk, identifying opportunities and enabling key business, innovation and funding decisions. Patent mapping is interpretive distillation of large amounts of often complex patent data into one or more high-va...

The SurfIP IP Parade is a platform where IP/technology owners can evaluate, exploit and commercialise their IP / technology. It enables IP owners to market, license or sell their technology solutions and IP by listing it in the IP Parade . The IP Parade also creates a platform for the licensing and the purchasing of technology solutions through IP listings by inventors, research institutes and corporations. For IP Owners / Sellers / Licensors It provides listing by IP owners (from 23rd Dec 2005 onwards) is free of charge. However, IP owners who wish SurfIP team to value-add their listing may pay a fee of USD2500 for these value-added products: * Animation of their invention * Patent mapping report of their invention * Derwent Record of their invention * Market Intelligence report * Patent valuation report (subject to availability) * Patent commercialisation and business plan (subject to availability) For IP Buyers / Licensees IP prospects who are interested to purc...

Patents in Commerce provides you with all the tools and know-how you need to successfully commercialize your inventions. Use them correctly and you'll have a 100% success rate. More than 20 experts show you how to establish initial low-cost protection (it doesn't cost 5 cents!), develop your ideas into viable products, secure manufacturing and marketing, patent your inventions with strong patent protection and license them directly to industry. Check out what you will learn You will learn techniques experts have used for years to have partners pay development costs...not the other way around like an invention promotion company. Good ideas don't need any of your money; there are others willing to invest. The PIC experts will show you how to find these partners and licensees. Follow the Patents in Commerce system and in just a few weeks you can be talking to potential partners and licensees and discussing your options.

Licensing your inventions can be an exciting alternative to going into business. It's usually the best way to defray the high cost of development, manufacturing and marketing. What is a license? Simply stated, patents give you the exclusive right to manufacture, use and sell products falling under the scope of the patent. In turn, a license conveys those rights to others. A patent owner who conveys those rights is called the licensor. The company receiving the rights is the licensee. The agreement between the parties is called a license. The basic elements of a License are: 1. You grant a licensee for the rights to manufacture, use and sell products falling under the scope of your patents. 2. The licensee pays you royalties. 3. The licensee must actively promote your invention else its rights are terminated. 4. The licensee keeps records which you may review. Source

The rise in the number of patents owned by major players in the market facilitated the emer­gence of a number of tools and methods that can be used to aid in obtaining patent and technol­ogy intelligence, and hence aid in directing the innovation process. These methods can help in providing directions for the innovation portfolio and perfecting the design of the product under development. Patent documents can be used as reservoirs of information that can be analyzed to assess the competitive position and expected competitive moves. The patenting history of a competitor reveals the technology road map they are following and provides insight as to future moves. Patent data analysis can also be used to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the competition's technological position. An examination of the file wrapper, for example, will reveal areas that the patentee agreed to limit and thus can provide guidance as to getting around a competitor's block­ing patents. The most valuabl...

Nanoparticle delivery systems are a dynamic field that is changing the way active agents (e.g., therapeutic, diagnostic, and imaging agents) are developed and delivered. These small delivery vehicles are designed with the goal of (1) overcoming limitations such as short plasma half-life, stability issues, and potential immunogenicity associated with small molecule and biomacromolecular therapeutics, and (2) minimizing toxic side effects while maximizing therapeutic activity.1 Active agents that were once considered obsolete or unusable are finding new life when delivered in conjunction with a nanoparticle carrier. Nanoparticle carriers having varied structures and compositions are finding utility as treatments and diagnostics for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. The first nanoparticle-based therapeutics has already come to market and more will surely follow in this developing field. Source

Nanotechnology promises to have a major impact on health care. Indeed, one of the first major product success stories to come out of this emerging field is a nanoparticle-based drug for cancer therapy. Abraxane, manufactured by Abraxis, uses albumin nanoparticles to enhance the effectiveness and reduce the side effects of paclitaxel, a chemotherapy drug used for treating breast cancer. In July 2006, Elan Pharmaceuticals filed a complaint alleging that the Abraxane infringes two of Elan's patents regarding nanoparticle formulation technology. After two years of discovery battles, the dispute has finally gone before a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of Elan for $55.2 million. In this article, IP lawyers William Prendergast and Heather Schafer provide a background of the dispute, summarize the case, and draw conclusions regarding its implications for nanotechnology patent litigation. Source

Nanotechnology research and commercialization activity in India is bolstered by improved private-public partnerships, and need-based research and development. Sensing the importance and application possibility of modern technologies, the Government of India has increased the central Science and Technology budget for its departments/agencies to over US $30 billon in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007–2012), an approximate five-fold increase over the actual expenditure during the last Plan. Several private companies and large industrial houses have established in-house advanced research facilities dedicated to innovation in this area. Regulatory efforts are however in their infancy, restricted primarily to specification of standards for selected nanomaterials with some emphasis on nanotoxicity. Source

Innography delivers intellectual property business intelligence software as a service that enables companies to better manage, protect and exploit their patent portfolios. By uniquely correlating patent data with key business information, Innography instantly generates visual insights so users can rapidly access and apply meaningful results when engaged in patent licensing, market analysis, competitive intelligence, freedom to operate, invalidation, due diligence and other related activities.

As patents continue to integrate more with core business processes, business intelligence is a key component to ensure maximum efficiency. Most IP systems today focus on inventory and keyword searching; they fail to take advantage of large cost savings and result in missed revenue generation opportunities. By leveraging business intelligence applications, companies can save up to 30‐40% of their total costs through effectively applying quantifiable, repeatable metrics to their day‐to‐day IP operations. Approximately only 42% of all patent applications will be granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This means the filing fees for 58% of a company’s patents will be wasted every year because of poor due diligence. With the average patent application costing $20,000, companies filing 50 applications will lose more than $500,000 each year. While this is partially related to prior art availability, there is a much larger problem pertaining to quality assurance and reinforcement of a...

Different products enter the market everyday. A consumer chooses a particular product based on certain conditions. An understanding of these conditions gives you an edge over your competitors. Competitor Analysis Services provide a thorough knowledge of who your competitors are their marketing strategies, objectives, their strengths and weaknesses. Competitor Analysis help a company understand its position with respect to its major competitors in the competitive market and provide business competitive intelligence and to understand the key competitors’ strategies and so to provide a proactive, planned and informed approach to its own strategies in order to gain an upper hand. Cheers Interactive (India) Pvt. Ltd , Navi Mumbai, India provide consistence business competitive intelligence services, enabling their clients in making profitable strategic business decisions.

Google has acquired GrandCentral , a company that provides services for managing your voice communications. GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account, which can be accessed from the web. GrandCentral offers many features that complement the phone services you already use. If you have multiple phone numbers (e.g., home, work, cell), you get one phone number that you can set to ring all, some, or none of your phones, based on who's calling. This way, your phone number is tied to you, and not your location or job. The service also gives you one central voice mailbox. You can listen to your voicemails online or from any phone, forward them to anybody, add the caller to your address book, block a caller as spam, and a lot more. You can even listen in on voicemail messages from your phone while they are being recorded, or switch a call from your cell phone to your desk phone and back again. Al...

In today’s competitive environment, success in the market depends primarily on strategic planning, early decision and understanding the competitors. Competitive intelligence provides knowledge of competitors, their marketing strategies, objectives, research activity, their strengths and weaknesses and other information. Competitor Analysis helps companies in understanding their position with respect to major competitors in the global competitive environment and provides actionable business competitive intelligence. Early and better understanding of the key competitors’ strategies helps to take proactive, planned and informed strategies business and R&D decisions in order to gain market dominance. Competitive intelligence is the process of discovering, analyzing and using intelligence from publicly available, non-proprietary information sources for the purpose of becoming more competitive. Competitive intelligence isn't simply about finding information. It's not about snoopi...

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Due diligence in a corporate transaction often involves investigating a business entity’s position with respect to the patent landscape. This typically involves preparing or reviewing opinion letters from counsel. This paper addresses how such patent opinion letters are prepared or evaluated. A freedom-to-operate opinion letter typically involves a “product clearance” investigation to proactively identify and dispose of patents in the area of the entity’s products, thereby proactively reducing the risk of subsequent patent problems. Close patents are typically analyzed in separate non-infringement opinion letters. A non-infringement opinion lette r distinguishes a product or service from close patent claims by first construing the claims within the analytical framework set forth by judicial precedent, and then reading the claims upon the product to establish no infringement, both literally, and under the doctrine of equivalents. The non-infringement letter serves to avoid known proble...

General search engines like Google have changed the world of the Internet. But if you're looking for science-specific results, Scirus is about to change your professional life. SCIRUS have made this science to filter out non-scientific information. So you won't end up in a Tennessee attraction park after entering 'Dolly'. Evidence? Do the Scirus-Google test now. And find out how less leads to more. Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet, linking to more than 167 million indexed scientific pages and documents. With Scirus you can search through a variety of sources, such as Medline, ScienceDirect, BioMedCentral, preprint servers, patents and web sites relevant for your research. Scirus helps you save time and speed up research. Enhanced efficiency and advanced functionality help you search on specific bibliographical information or within specific sources. The refine terms help you quickly select terms that improve the...

Steps to protect ownership of IP filled circle Employee agreements: secure invention assignments filled circle Confidentiality agreements filled circle Records: keep proper laboratory documentation that supports your ownership and dates of invention filled circle Material transfer agreements: limit the ways in which your partners can use the biological samples you supply Technology audit: know what is yours filled circle Identify key developments, products, processes, know-how, and trade secrets filled circle Identify your core technologies that require protection filled circle Learn what can be protected and what cannot filled circle Identify the intellectual property you need that is, or may be, owned by others filled circle Recognize which aspects of your core technology are in the public domain Build and maintain a valuable IP portfolio filled circle Match your strategic goals with your proprietary rights filled circle Claim early, claim often, and update patent applicat...

Putting in place a sound strategy for protecting and maximizing a company's intellectual property can boost its future value , say Steven Meltzer, Michelle Marks, and James McCormick. This article suggests ten basic steps that you can take to build a solid IP foundation that will help attract funding from investors Step 1: Identify your core technologies Step 2: Audit your technology, understand your rights Step 3: Gauge your chances of IP protection Step 4: Get employees to assign inventions to the company Step 5: Implement non-competition and confidentiality agreements Step 6: Establish procedures to protect your IP rights Step 7: Use patent applications offensively and defensively Step 8: Focus on the scope of your claims Step 9: Keep informed of your competitors' rights Step 10: Seek low-cost revenue opportunities Link to full text of article

Patent literature is a valuable source of scientific information, and, while research published in journals is overproportionally cited in patents dealing with biotechnological and pharmaceutical inventions compared to the rest of the patent literature, the reverse is unfortunately not true. A recent study concluded that only 0.25% of articles covering all biological sciences (referenced in the Science Citation Index from 1998) cite patents. An obvious reflection of this neglect is the lack of a specific reference style format for patents in the instructions for authors of most biomedical journals, presumably because only few people ever ask for it. While this ignorance of patents as an information source might be considered to be a bigger problem in engineering and material sciences, a recent comment in Nature pointed out that some patents contain more detailed information than the corresponding scientific papers (in this case it was about stem cell technology). Click to read full ar...

Presentation from the Infonortics conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 27-28, 2005 * Ensuring Successful Technology Insertion: It’s Not About Technology (Only) * Consolidating and Defining Relationships between Data Sets * Filling the Analysis Gap: Creating an Information Advantage for the Enterprise * How End-Users Combine High Recall Search Tools with Visualization * Increasing the Value of Sci-Tech Intelligence through Enhanced Visualization * Using Visualization and Data Mining to Decipher Chemical and Biological Data * Mining and Visualization of Patent Information for R&D Strategy: Lessons Learned * Intelligence Tools for Better and Faster Reading and Analysis of Retrieved Data * Commercial ROI of Text-Mining Research * Extracting Actionable Intelligence from Text Flows and Stocks * Beyond Search * Analysis of Structured and Unstructured Data: Responding to Trends, Improving Productivity and Better Allocating Resource * Unified Analytics: Unstructured Text + Enterprise Data = ...