IPVision Patent Analytics Tool

The IPVision Patent Analytics provides the patent data mining and mapping tool (Find the Trees – See the Forest™) which enables to analyze patent portfolios, technologies and innovations, provide new competitive intelligence insights, enable companies to align intellectual property management with strategic objectives. The Map Analysis Features highlight important data on the map such as:

·        Patent Cluster Maps™: show the patents grouped by the Selected Attribute- e.g., USTPO Class, By First Assignee, By First Named Inventor, or By Agent. This helps you investigate inventors, companies and technologies.

·        Patent Family Maps™: show applications (provisional and non-provisional), continuations, continuations-in-part, divisionals, abandoned applications and related international filings.

·        Visual Citation – Seminal Patents™: Which patents on the map are Seminal Patents – i.e., patents that have been cited by more than 20 other patents. In the Pro Version these patents are highlighted on the map.

·        Litigation Analysis™: Which patents on the Map have changed ownership?

·        Red Flag – Expired Patents Due to Non-Payment™: Highlighted patents have expired due to non-payment of USPTO maintenance fees, as per USPTO data.

·        Red Flag – Expired Patents Due to Non-Payment™: Highlighted patents have expired due to non-payment of USPTO maintenance fees, as per USPTO data.

·        Orphan Analysis™: Highlighted patents by color group are Orphan Patents and Cluster Patents that have common inventors.

The sample analysis is available at link: Find the Trees – See the Forest™ 

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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