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Portfolio Analysis | Customized Solutions | Biographies
Each IP Checkups Patent Portfolio Analysis can be customized
to help companies:
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses within patent portfolios and
gain valuable insight and perspective into competitive markets
- Follow the evolution of a particular technology landscape over time
- Determine the range of participants including the main assignees
that are inventing within a particular technology space
- Identify acquisition and divestiture candidates based on analyzing
competitive patent landscapes
- Identify investment opportunities for private equity funds, hedge
funds, venture capitalists, and other buy-side investors
- Investigate markets and competitive landscapes before launching R&D
activities
- Understand the direction in which companies are headed based on the
profile of their patenting activity and their overall R&D programs
- Categorize, evaluate, and arrange individual patents to determine
in what direction and how fast specific technology areas are maturing
- Explore the distribution of patents into specific technology classes
- Identify areas of extreme inventive concentration and areas that
have yet to be fully explored within technological landscapes
- Understand the key patents upon which future emerging technology
landscapes will be built
- Identify the most prolific inventors within a particular space
- Determine a company's R&D velocity or patenting behavior over
time, relative to the competition
- Analyze geographic filing behavior
- Identify and assess in and out licensing opportunities thereby enabling
companies to extract optimum value from their intellectual assets
- Align legal departments with business development and R&D activities
to create an integrated strategic business development plan
