Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

In an article by Mr. Cynthia Cheng Correia , describe the importance of Competitive intelligence for companies. Competitive intelligence is the practice of examining the external competitive environment – direct rivals, clients, economic/regulatory matters, and more – to support the development of more resilient, robust strategy and tactics. The intelligence outcome is meaningful, actionable, and provides “an insight about change and future developments and their implications to the company. Effectively, CI improves tactical and strategic decision-making through understanding the competitive environment. Unlike business intelligence, which has become a catch-all term that is used to describe data mining and activities involving business information, CI involves competitive analysis and examines competitive forces within one’s industry. While competitive intelligence is concerned with industry forces, competitor intelligence distinctly centers on the activities of a rival. Finally, comp...

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...

Peer-to-Patent is a groundbreaking initiative organized by New York Law School in cooperation with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that "blows the doors" off of the patent examination process, opening it up to public participation for the first time in history.

The following are links to many patent offices worldwide. From the native language page there is often a link to an English version. AD AM AR AT AU BE BG BR CA CH CN CU CZ DE DK DZ ea EE EG ep ES FI FR GB GE GR HK HR HU ID IE IN IS IT JO JP KE KG KR KZ LI LT LU LV MA MC MD MK MO MX MY NL NO NZ PA PE PH PL PT RO RU SE SG SI SK TH TJ TR UA US UZ wo ZA

IPEXL has released the beta version for their Patent Search tool. Its really nice and provides many feature. Must to have a look for patent professionals. Features: Patent Search - Patent search over China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, S. Korea, PCT, United States, Europe, UK and Canada with translation link through google translator. Patent Directory - Patent search based on IPC class IP Market Place - Patents open for license.

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...

This is a tool for patent searching, downloading and analyzing. Analyzing focus are on patent-families, citation-networks, assignee-networks , inventor-networks…etc. Download