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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Is the Art Well Known? Starting with the first question regarding “is the art well-known?”, the list of 14 patents were evaluated for the number of times they’d been cited by others as shown in the figure. It’s found that two of the patents have drawn the most interest. But although they’ve drawn [...]
To get started, the field of interest has to be framed. Keywords and concepts need to be identified. These come from product specifications or service line descriptions. To obtain them the team reviews product or service line websites and other industry information to capture the more descriptive terms. Another source of information comes [...]
In order to provide a better understanding of the tools and viewpoints mentioned in the previous section, an example of a competitive assessment for a new business development initiative is provided. This example project, utilizing high ethylene content vinyl acetate copolymer emulsions, will use 14 selected patents as representative of the initial art [...]
Associated with individual projects are Competitive Assessment Tools and Viewpoints used for evaluating the health of a platform or portfolio of projects. The book “Third Generation R&D” contains a variety of visual tools for selecting and improving an R&D Portfolio The Industrial Research Institute’s Research on Research Sub-committee’s improved on the R&D Portfolio [...]
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