Moving from the team’s focused start looking at just 14 patents, they used the work they did on keyword development to create a database of over 17,000 patents that were related generally to ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer emulsion technology. From such a large body of work the analysis team segmented the documents by assignee. In the “Rank Ordering of Assignees” figure it can be seen that investors in this technology included those utilizing materials and applications, competitive suppliers of similar materials, and raw material suppliers. There were significant portfolios from many companies. The team concluded that freedom to practice will be clouded by lots of prior art, and that they will have to use other analysis tools to quickly figure out if this project is worth doing.