Tracking Competitors Using Patent Monitoring

Tracking Competitors Using Patent Monitoring: Patent monitoring is a process in which technology, proprietorship, legal status, and market trends related to competitors’ patents are regularly monitored. It is done to identify who is working on what and in which jurisdiction...

How to Create Landscapes for Extensive Competitor Analysis

Competitor Analysis If you want to be the first-to-market, you need to know more about your competitors. From well-crafted patent landscapes, you can conduct a competitor analysis to gain key insights into your competitors’ assets, IP strategies, and partners, as...

How to Improve your Competitor Intelligence with AI?

Are you doing everything feasible to ensure that your competitor intelligence discoveries result in growth, profitability, and a sustained competitor advantage for your company? No, if you haven’t included artificial intelligence in your competitor intelligence toolkit. See how you can...

The Risks of Using Free Patent Search Tools

Free patent search tools can cost you in the long run, not just in terms of money, but also in terms of time and risk. A study published in the World Patent Information Journal (Volume 52) by Jürgen and Clarke...

A New Approach to Find Relevant Insights in the Patent Landscape

Patent landscape analysis has been extensively used in the IP industry for many years to track the number of patent filings, competitors, and collaborations, among other things. But there’s a lot more to these landscapes than just numbers. These days,...

What is Considered as a “Prior Art” When applying for a Patent?

What Exactly is Prior Art? Prior art is any evidence or proof (written or oral) that your invention was known prior to the effective date of the filing of a patent application or prior to the date of invention. It...