High Impact Patent Engineering Analysis

The basic purpose of the High Impact Patent Engineering Analysis program is to explain the state-of-the-art for a specific technology in terms of an engineering analysis of its intellectual property ( IP ).  With such an analysis, the road ahead for future products becomes much more clear.  This analysis can then be used by a company to optimize their current and future IP positions.

( The High Impact Patent Engineering Analysis program is a subset of The Comprehensive Patent Portfolio Development System. )

Benefits

The analysis can help a company:

• Create a wall of protection for the core technology of the company (defense)
• Create a bank of high value technology trading cards to reduce the effect of legal attacks (defense)
• Create a roadway into the market for the core technology to expand (offense)
• Find and grab weak territory in competitor’s market strategies (offense)
• Find and grab opportunities left by other companies that may have failed (offense)
• Find and grab opportunities created by small inventors that have not been exploited (offense)
• Create a bank of high value technology trading cards to attract future investment (offense)
• Provide clear direction for future technology development (offense)
• Provide incentives for internal technology innovation (offense)

Presentation of the information - the Report

The result of the program is a report and a presentation which typically contain the following sections:

STRUCTURE                              

1. Clearly define the current core technology and its elements.
2. Describe the patent foundation based on active patents.
3. Describe the structure of the prior art supporting the active patents.
4. Describe the IP positions of various companies in the trade.
5. Determine the current commercial and institutional research base for the new technology.

ANALYSIS

6. Analyze the novelty of the new technology.
7. Analyze the structure of  the foundation for the issued patents and prior art.
8. Analyze the structure of the commercial competition: geography maps
9. Analyze the structure of the institutional competition: geography maps

SYNTHESIS

10. Define and map new, virtual technologies that addresses anticipated competitive pressures.
11. Build intellectual property maps to summarize the accessibility of the issued patent foundation.

Presentation expansion

The elements of the report and presentation are expanded here.

Structure

1. Clearly define the current core technology and its elements

Presents a simplified set of English language claims for the current technology.  Structures the claims into trees.

2. Describe the patent foundation based on active patents

Present the results of a thorough patent search. 

3. Describe the structure of the prior art supporting the active patents

Conduct a patent search in the prior art preceding the active period.  Break out the significant claims for each related patent, describe them in simplified English and structure them into trees.

4. Describe the IP positions of various companies in the trade

 Map the patents based on corporate ownership.

5. Determine the current commercial and institutional research base for the new technology

Map the commercial and institutional research base for the new technology.

Analysis

Analyze the relevant patents

Break out the significant claims for each relevant patent, describe them in simplified English and structure them into claim trees.

7. Analyze the structure of  the foundation for the issued patents and prior art.

This is an engineering analysis to determine how well the patent art covers the technology exploring the strengths and weaknesses of issued patents. The information is presented as claim tables and claim maps.

6. Analyze the novelty of the new technology

This is an engineering analysis of the technology exploring its cleverness and practicality.

8. Analyze the structure of the commercial competition: geography maps

This is an analysis of patent ownership with an attempt to understand who has an interest in the area, who has control and who is investing in the future.

9. Analyze the structure of the institutional competition: geography maps

This step tries to identify the potential impact of research.  What technologies are the labs likely to work on? 

Synthesis

10. Define and map new, virtual technologies that addresses anticipated competitive pressures

This task is an attempt to look into the near future to suggest new technologies and products that can be developed.

Build intellectual property maps to summarize the accessibility of the issued patent foundation

This task is an attempt to show how the new technologies and products suggested by the previous task map into the structure of the patent art.

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