Introduction A patent whitespace is not simply a technology no one has patented. It is a technical area where patent density is low enough relative to commercial importance that a filing now — based on current R&D output — can...
Introduction Competitor patent filings are publicly observable 18 months before any product announcement. In that window, a company filing aggressively around a technical area is signalling its R&D investment direction — more reliably than any press release, earnings call, or...