Introduction The signal that matters in IP competitive intelligence is not what a competitor says they are doing. It is what they are filing. Patent filings are the earliest public disclosure of R&D direction. A competitor who files 40 patents...
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...