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Competitive Intelligence Assessment of a New Business Development Project: “How are Investments of the Closest Commercial and Technical Participants Changing?”

Changing Investments in Sub-Field of Interest It is not only the top participants who are of importance, but also those who are most changing their investment. The “Changing Investments” figure shows that companies are simultaneously building their efforts, and leaving, the field. The project team noted that the largest investors in the field [...]

pgermeraad2021-01-04T13:02:40-08:00

Competitive Intelligence Assessment of a New Business Development Project: “Who Are the Closest Commercial and Technical Participants in this Area?”

Participants in Sub-Field of Interest Understanding who are the top players and their interest in a specific area is clearly important to the project team when recommending if their company should participate or not. There’s no reason to pick an area of strong intense competition if other open areas exist that would be [...]

pgermeraad2021-01-04T13:01:23-08:00

Competitive Intelligence Assessment of a New Business Development Project: “What Are the Size and Velocity of the R&D Investments in this Area?”

Investment Velocity in Sub-Field of Interest This can be seen in the “Investment Velocity in Sub-Field of Interest” figure, investment has been going through five-year waves. Such waves of patent activity typically indicate new technology and market introductions. This is good news for the project team because markets that are in steep decline [...]

pgermeraad2021-01-04T12:59:56-08:00

Competitive Intelligence Assessment of a New Business Development Project: “How Crowded Are Application Areas (Patent Codes)?”

Patent Classification of Art In Sub-Field of Interest As shown in the “Patent Classification of Art In Sub-Field of Interest” figure, it can be seen that the top three areas relate to adhesive compositions (C09J), applications of these adhesives (A61F), and product constructions using these adhesives (B32B). In particular the detailed uses found [...]

pgermeraad2021-01-04T12:58:26-08:00

Competitive Intelligence Assessment of a New Business Development Project: “How Crowded Are Application Areas (Landscape Maps)?”

Another way to find application areas that might be of interest is to build landscape maps from the group of 17,000 patents in the database. These landscape maps show areas where past investments have been made. In the “Utilizing Landscape Maps” figure, mountains show where large investments have been made. Utilizing Landscape Maps [...]

pgermeraad2021-01-04T12:57:03-08:00

Competitive Intelligence Assessment of a New Business Development Project: “What New Application Areas Should Be Considered?”

New Application Areas for Consideration More Application Areas To refine the areas of interest that might be important for their own company, the analysis team created a list of the “topics” found in the 17,000 patent database, and identified those related to application areas the company might want to participate in. As seen [...]

pgermeraad2021-01-04T12:54:33-08:00

Competitive Intelligence Assessment of a New Business Development Project: “What Business Are the Top Assignee’s Interested In?”

Rank Ordering of Assignees 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 [...]

pgermeraad2021-01-04T12:51:51-08:00

Competitive Intelligence Assessment of a New Business Development Project: “Are the Company’s Own Patents Being Cited?”

Company’s Own Patent The Company’s own patent was studied as shown in the figure. Although it can be seen that it heavily built on the work of others, most notably National Starch, it has not received any forward citations itself. In part this could be because it is so new. It is also [...]

pgermeraad2021-01-04T12:50:18-08:00

Competitive Intelligence Assessment of a New Business Development Project: “How Extensively Has the Second Most Top Cited Patent Been Built Upon?”

Second Top Cited Patent To gain further insight on entities participating in the field, the second patent that is been cited most by others was studied for its relationships as shown in the “second top cited patent” figure. The team noted that this patent has been cited heavily by others, in part because [...]

pgermeraad2021-01-04T12:48:01-08:00

Competitive Intelligence Assessment of a New Business Development Project: “How Extensively Has the Top Cited Patent Been Built Upon?”

How extensively has the top cited patent been built upon? Top cited patent, US 5782181 references 27 US patents and is cited by seven other entities, as shown in the “How extensively has the top cited patent been built upon?” figure . The patent was issued in 1998 and just four years later [...]

pgermeraad2021-01-04T12:46:32-08:00

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