Professional Services: Research and analytics services
Actionable business strategy for research & development, competitive intelligence and merger & acquisition support.
Empower your decision making through visually engaging research and analysis
Our Research & Analytics team of industry and platform experts connect the dots to derive intelligence from patent data and sources of non-patent data and literature, giving you a holistic view of competitors and the patent landscape. With our research services you can expedite projects by getting answers to complex business questions faster; achieve a greater return on innovation investment by efficiently channeling your resources and separate the signals from noise for effective market and patent research.
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Patent landscape
Visualize competition and opportunities.
PatSnap’s patent landscape studies provide you with visually engaging output and analysis needed to inform the strategic research planning for R&D and IP teams. Powered by the PatSnap platform, our team of IP experts use analytical models and visualizations to help you connect the dots in innovation.
This will help:
- Comprehend the technology landscape
- Find needed technology (licensing, acquisition)
- Find untapped value for out-licensing
- Identify development partners and positioning for collaboration
- Analyze the validity of patents based on legal status
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Competitive intelligence & benchmarking
Our experts can identify your market position.
PatSnap’s competitive intelligence reports provide clients with business intelligence by revealing competitors' IP and R&D strengths and strategies. Additionally, our competitive benchmarking reports give you a sense of your market position relative to your competitors.
This will help:
- Understand competitors’ portfolio strengths and developments
- Provide insights into known and unknown competitors in a domain
- Compare patent portfolio qualities and quantities
- Build positioning for investors and identify partners for cross selling and licensing opportunities
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Freedom to operate (FTO)
We help you identify and mitigate risk.
Our FTO analysis report helps you understand what patent infringement risks exist with the potential commercialization of a product or service. Analysis begins with a comprehensive FTO search, and then a review of each individual patent to determine whether the new product or service falls within the claims of any particular patent.
This will help you understand:
- Where risks lie (e.g. in whose hands and in what technology area)
- If a product or service infringes on any 3rd party prior to commercialization
- If valid patents exist from whom licenses need to be obtained
- How to navigate changes when a patent owner isn't interested in licensing
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Portfolio audit
Our experts can identify your market position.
PatSnap’s portfolio audit provides a review the status of all its owned or acquired granted patents, pending patent applications, and other licensed patent rights. Our portfolio audits also provide an opportunity for a business to review its policies and strategies for patent portfolio management.
Portfolio audits help organizations:
- Understand the return on investment of IP portfolio
- Understand whether the filing strategy is in sync with market or business vision
- Understand if a company's current IP is protecting core products