New Dimensions in Patent Mapping

The strategic and commercial importance of intellectual property has increased many folds; and decision makers need to better understand competitive IP space. After conducting the patent search it becomes necessary to be analyzed for context it for. The analysis generates a lot of raw data, to make it meaningful information it’s represented in different forms e.g. Charts, graph, tables etc. This is termed as “Patent Map” and the process is called as Patent Mapping. The patents maps generate the visual representation of data to make strategy and decision to Scientists, Business people. The main content of the patent mapping includes the competitors, associations of companies, Universities and there associations, Patent Classification codes, Inventor monitoring and their affiliation, time line trend of development, geographical distribution and their future markets, technical focus, technological diversification and there movement to emergence of new technologies and businesses. Linking of the Literatures related to that technology and mapping of products to particular patent generates high value for decision makers. People has tried different formats and tools to generate and represent patent maps e.g. Excel, Access, Mind Map, Theme maps, PowerPoint etc. Each has its own limitation and scenario is changing rapidly, so new tools has come e.g. Dashboard which provides the interactive representation of the patent maps. The quality of patent maps and representation add the added insights to the end user to get the meaning full data from complex raw data. There is very good scope to improve it further to give high end class patent maps for competitive intelligence and monitoring.

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