Patent Landscape Analysis & Search Report

When you are preparing to move into a new technology area or market and need to know what is already claimed there.

When choosing the path for upcoming R&D initiatives, so effort goes where there is room to build.

To become properly informed about the tactics rivals are using and what they are currently working on.

To speed up development by finding potential answers already disclosed in patent data.

To give researchers a clear steer on how to develop their work more effectively.

When you are considering extending patent protection into further jurisdictions.

For decisions about mergers, acquisitions, hiring and how to build a technical team.

To decide which licensing opportunities, inbound or outbound, are worth pursuing.

Our people have handled a wide variety of landscaping projects with very different objectives across many technical fields, so we can build the right project plan and scope for your particular target.

We run fully automated, entirely manual, or hybrid landscapes depending on the goal and the budget available.

Reports are customised to what the client actually needs rather than issued to a fixed template.

For competition-focused landscapes, our tactics also capture patents held quietly under key inventors’ names or picked up through small acquisitions.

Where the field requires it, we bring non-patent technical literature into the landscape too.

Our taxonomies are designed to capture the broad picture for CXOs and the deeper detail that execution teams such as R&D need from the same study.

We draw out numerous data-driven insights and flag any notable observations or anomalies for discussion when the report is presented.

We use automated ranking tools to classify portfolios consistently.

Custom dashboards make the results easier to visualise, share around the business and actually use.

We have our own IT team building bespoke data analytics tools, so the tooling follows the question rather than the reverse.

For more practical decisions we compare the IP landscape findings against market research and observed company activity.

Projects include regular updates, so the landscape does not go stale the month after delivery.