Patent Search

IP Partner's professional services fulfill the needs of a variety of parties, including:

• Patent information analysts and business intelligence professionals within corporations

• Patent and litigation attorneys in law firms or within corporations

• Corporate strategic planning and licensing professionals

• R&D scientists and inventors

• Corporate legal councils, M&A executives, and directors of R&D

Each type of client often has a unique objective in mind depending upon the client's background and the business problem.  IP Partner strives to first understand the underlying business objectives, then recommends the most effective approach to accommodate a client's goal and budget.  

Patent Landscape Mapping and Analysis

Are there any business decision makers - the executives, strategic planners, legal councils, deal makers, and R&D head -  who have the time to sort through mountains of information?  Coming from the ranks of senior management in corporations, the top consultants of IP Partner understand what matters to bridge the gap between information and decision making.

We go through multiple searches, review hundreds or thousands of patent publications, conduct in-depth examinations of the high-relevance patents, and translate complex information into clear facts, trends, and risks.  In addition, our IP-Savvy(SM) proprietary tools allow us to conduct complete surveys of patents in a technical field or an industry of interest.  We have mastered the science and art of turning complex and lengthy patent documents into an easily read report for a client's decision makers.  No matter what the client's depth and background in patents, he or she will grasp the strategic, technical, and competitive implications of the entire patent landscape that is pertinent to the company's product, marketing and M&A strategies.

A patent landscape mapping and analysis project is highly recommended if your business is involved in any of the following activities:

• Developing a new product

• Company acquisitions

• Licensing technology from another company

• Investment in another company

• Competing with companies who have overlapping technologies

In simple terms, patent landscape mapping (PLM) is a tool to analyze existing IP to determine the risks and opportunities of participating in a given technology and/or product space.  It describes the technologies and alternative solutions that have been applied to a particular product category.  PLM identifies competitors based on their issued and filed IP, and outlines their strategies, strengths and problem-solving approaches.  PLM enables a company’s scientific and commercial management teams to identify the best opportunities for investment in a selected product area, to create a strategy to protect their IP, and to establish differentiation with respect to their competitors.

Our unbiased, fact based analysis enable clients to:

• Gain an in-depth understanding of the IP and its landscape

• Identify competitors' IP strategies and portfolios

• Detect threats and develop workaround solutions

• Position new products in the market

• Ensure new patents have economic value

• Minimize legal costs

• Profit from patent value through defensive or offensive approaches

Given the reality that new product development involves millions of dollars, years of R&D, and patent infringement tarnishes a company's market and survival, companies should make PLM a standard and integral part of their product development process for risk reduction. 

This map shows the main types of technologies in the patent landscape for  the treatment of a fungal infection. 

The field consists of four technology groups and each has several types of agents or devices.  Clients can quickly understand the technologies that are out there, and evaluate the competitive advantage of their own IP.

This map shows the competitors involved in the materials and applications of nanoparticles

The field consists of two large players shown in yellow and light blue dots and several smaller players in pink, green, purple, dark green and dark blue dots.  The red circles are the patents that belong to a company under a M&A discussion.  It is clear from the patent map that the M&A target's patents are too widespread in that they lack the ability to block others.  A different M&A target is recommended as a result.

Unlocking patent value is hard work.  IP Partner’s proprietary process provides quick identification of the opportunities available for a given technology.  We will help clients to:

• Identify and find licensees or buyers for a technology

• Find specific technologies to fill the gaps in companies’ IP portfolios