Many of today's global technology based corporations have built up extensive patent portfolios. Unless the portfolio has been carefully managed over time it is easy to arrive at a situation where patent assets are poorly documented and maintained. Often the links between a corporation's product and patent portfolios is at best weak and in extreme cases diverging, particularly where the patent portfolio has grown inorganically through mergers and acquisitions. Over time valuable patent assets can be "lost" in the complexity of the wider portfolio or underperforming non aligned assets are either maintained unnecessarily or worse still their true value through sale or licensing is never realized.
IPCalculus' Patent Portfolio Analysis is a categorization and assessment of your patent portfolio by technology and/or by business unit, including verification of assignment. Only when all patents have been analysed and classified in this way will it be possible to making fully informed decisions about the management of the portfolio as a whole and of patents individually. Our portfolio analysis report will give you complete insight into what is in your portfolio and helps you to strategize your R&D investment with your patenting activity.
Once Patent portfolio analysis is completed for all published and granted patents it is also possible to perform more detailed analysis of portfolio to understand how the patents map to products by performing Patent to Product Mapping or Product to Patent Mapping.
Patent Portfolio Analysis is helpful in
Identify strong areas of your portfolio
Strategize your R&D investment with your patenting activity
Get synergy between your patent portfolio and products
Identify unused patents in your portfolio for out-license