Professional Services: Research and analytics services

Actionable business strategy for research & development, competitive intelligence and merger & acquisition support.

Empower your decision making through visually engaging research and analysis

Our Research & Analytics team of industry and platform experts connect the dots to derive intelligence from patent data and sources of non-patent data and literature, giving you a holistic view of competitors and the patent landscape. With our research services you can expedite projects by getting answers to complex business questions faster; achieve a greater return on innovation investment by efficiently channeling your resources and separate the signals from noise for effective market and patent research.

Patent landscape

Visualize competition and opportunities.

PatSnap’s patent landscape studies provide you with visually engaging output and analysis needed to inform the strategic research planning for R&D and IP teams. Powered by the PatSnap platform, our team of IP experts use analytical models and visualizations to help you connect the dots in innovation.

This will help:

Comprehend the technology landscape
Find needed technology (licensing, acquisition)
Find untapped value for out-licensing
Identify development partners and positioning for collaboration
Analyze the validity of patents based on legal status

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Competitive intelligence & benchmarking

Our experts can identify your market position.

PatSnap’s competitive intelligence reports provide clients with business intelligence by revealing competitors' IP and R&D strengths and strategies. Additionally, our competitive benchmarking reports give you a sense of your market position relative to your competitors.

This will help:

Understand competitors’ portfolio strengths and developments
Provide insights into known and unknown competitors in a domain
Compare patent portfolio qualities and quantities
Build positioning for investors and identify partners for cross selling and licensing opportunities

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Freedom to operate (FTO)

We help you identify and mitigate risk.

Our FTO analysis report helps you understand what patent infringement risks exist with the potential commercialization of a product or service. Analysis begins with a comprehensive FTO search, and then a review of each individual patent to determine whether the new product or service falls within the claims of any particular patent.

This will help you understand:

Where risks lie (e.g. in whose hands and in what technology area)
If a product or service infringes on any 3rd party prior to commercialization
If valid patents exist from whom licenses need to be obtained
How to navigate changes when a patent owner isn't interested in licensing

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Portfolio audit

Our experts can identify your market position.

PatSnap’s portfolio audit provides a review the status of all its owned or acquired granted patents, pending patent applications, and other licensed patent rights. Our portfolio audits also provide an opportunity for a business to review its policies and strategies for patent portfolio management.

Portfolio audits help organizations:

Understand the return on investment of IP portfolio
Understand whether the filing strategy is in sync with market or business vision
Understand if a company's current IP is protecting core products

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PatSnap’s semantic search has been a high value-add for McCoy because it allows an engineer who's not technically trained in patent processes to perform a level of initial exploration. That's probably where we're using PatSnap the most and getting the most immediate value out of it.

Dusty Sonnier, Director of Engineering and Technology

PatSnap helps us identify the white space that we can go and innovate in or take advantage of—it gives the team the best chance of success. But it’s not just giving you data, it makes it useful by turning it into something you can pull insight from easily.

Caroline Priestley, Head of IP, Suntory Beverage and Food Limited

PatSnap helps LiveRamp remain innovative by allowing us to see where the competition is playing through the landscaping tools. It lets us see where there are new opportunities and helps us focus in on those areas in an intelligent way.

Charles Zinsmeyer, Director of IP, LiveRamp

PatSnap helps me sort through large amounts of data ensuring enough ground has been covered to establish a good assessment. This strengthens my confidence and the likelihood of GKN obtaining good patent protection.

Eric LaMothe, Patent Manager, GKN Driveline

We have a couple of offices that use PatSnap to collaborate and communicate on projects—our researchers are able to discuss the status of a particular technology area in real time when working on inventions.

Ho Yuen Ping, Associate Director Entrepreneurship Centre, National University of Singapore

With PatSnap, we can pull up information and get a much better snapshot of where our competitor’s intellectual property fits into the market and consider how we can then use that knowledge to work more efficiently.

Lou Lombardo, Senior Scientist—R&D Technology, Takasago

With PatSnap tools like semantic search and alerts, we feel confident that we know what is going on in our technology spaces. PatSnap also has legal information that is not available in free patent tools.

Maria Pia, Project Manager, Ovivo

With PatSnap email alerts, I can get weekly updates on competitor patent filings and specific technology spaces sent straight to my inbox. This has saved us a lot of valuable time which would have otherwise been spent searching and sorting through patent documents. Overall, PatSnap makes our innovation process much more efficient.

Mark Noel, Vice President of Technology and Intellectual Property, Curis Inc

As a company pioneering new approaches to disease-specific gene therapy, it’s important we can analyze sequences and connect them to related global patent application families when conducting FTO and patentability assessments. PatSnap Bio has been very helpful in our daily processes as it allows us to search by sequence, quickly view sequences in patent applications, and further extract and align sequences, all within one tool. Workspaces have also been useful when coordinating reviews with colleagues, as they allow us to share our results asynchronously, preventing siloed work.

Adam Poulin-Kerstien, Vice President, Head of Intellectual Property, Dyno Therapeutics

With PatSnap’s automatic email notifications, we can easily monitor the IP space, our competitors, customers, and emerging trends. Plus, its Claim Tree, Smart Image, and Workspace tools (to name a few) simplify the patent analysis process saving us ample time. Also, when looking for potential M&A targets, we leverage Insights to understand a company’s IP portfolio. Having access to these data points is crucial to our ongoing success, and now we can't imagine not using PatSnap!

Claude Carignan, Senior IP Director & Technical Advisor, Teraxion

PatSnap's intuitive platform has enabled us to bring our patent analysis in-house, providing greater visibility of competitor innovations and easy access to full patent details, reducing our reliance on external counsel. While steel production is a mature industry, we continue to develop innovative, more sustainable products for our customers while also working to develop new technologies to transform our business and progress our low carbon roadmap. PatSnap is an essential and cost-effective tool to help us with this challenge.

Dr. Gari Harris, Head of R&D and Intellectual Property Rights, British Steel Limited

At Innovent Labs Africa, we are working to develop the innovation ecosystem of Africa by providing expertise on innovation coupled with enterprise creation to start-ups, MSME's, academia and more. We have trusted PatSnap as our software solution of choice; their connected innovation intelligence platform enables us to perform technology landscaping, novelty searches and so much more. Being supported by the data and customized analytics PatSnap provides, the potential for expanding innovation in Africa is immense.

Patrick Mugisha (Moogy) & Raymond Natukunda, Co-founders, Innovent Labs Africa

As a consulting firm, we touch upon many aspects of innovation within various industries. In our work, it’s imperative we take a data driven, evidence-based approach, especially when working with patents, technology, and innovation. PatSnap’s visual representations of data, such as patent landscapes and Insights, very quicky give us a high-level understanding and easily digestible visualization of a technology space. It ultimately helps us gain a deeper understanding of the adjacent technology areas, key players, and potential white space, enabling us to better serve our clients.

Joe Gifford, President and Principal Consultant, Catalytic Consulting