INTRODUCTIONR e d e f i n i n g t h e I P M a r k e t

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• PatSnap is the leading IP Analytic and Management platform that empowers even non IP-proficient users to understand this competitive landscape.

• Our search database provides coverage of over 110 countries worldwide.

• We also offer comprehensive analysis platforms, which allows you to track the development of your competitors or collaborators, identify your potential customers and gain insight into the global market.

• PatSnap is flexible and easy to master, offering simultaneous patent search and analysis, as well as being able to seamlessly export all kinds of data, quickly and easily.

What is PatSnap?

Go-to source for Technical Information

• The legal requirement for novelty plus full disclosure ensures that much information appears here first and often nowhere else.

• Patent system requires the inventor to disclose the invention in sufficient detail so that one ‘skilled in the art’ can repeat the invention from the description contained in the published patent document

• It is this requirement that makes patents such valuable sources of technical information and a potentially rich information resource for you.

Patent Big Data translates into actual Business Insights

• Market patent filing trends• Competitor’s patent filing focus and analysis

Patent information – Why is it important?

• Novelty search – to determine the novelty or lack of novelty of the invention claimed in a patent application.

• Patentability or Validity Search – to locate documents relevant to the determination not only of novelty but also of other criteria of patentability, for example, the presence or absence of an inventive step (i.e., that the alleged invention is or is not obvious) or the achievement of useful results or technical progress.

• Infringement Search – to locate patents and published patent applications which might be infringed by a given industrial activity.

• Informative Search – to familiarise the inquirer with the state of the art in a particular field of technology. It is also often referred to as a “state of the art search”.

Prior Art Search

Reading a patent quickly

Dual View • Full patent document viewable

alongside the abstract, claims and description so you can view both simultaneously.

• Allows seamless cross-referencing and supporting prior art.

Patent overview• Assignee name, inventor name and

classification hyperlinked for direct analysis.

• Downloadable individual patent document.

Search results • Identifies and

highlights your keyword search term in the results list.

• A variety of further filter options allow you to see a list of the top assignees with the most patent activity in their R&D portfolio, relating to your search term.

Reading a patent quickly offline

Unlimited, customisable export function, allowing you to quickly and simultaneously download multiple data that suits your specific needs.

The ability to produce a hit list of exiting patents that are citing a particular technology, allowing you to undertake further research offline and saved to your device.

PatSnap offers the utmost flexibility with search and customisation options, providing a tailor-made platform that gives you the freedom to work in the mode that suits you.

Analyzing a company’s patent profile

Graphical analysis• Transforms vast, scattered and

unmanageable data into systematic and valued intelligence – no matter how broad or refined your search.

• Provides simple, easy to understand visualisations of trends and industry activity aiding IP strategy and investment.

• The graphical analysis utilises a variety of factors, which in turn can assist with collaborator or competitor monitoring. Activity mapping allows you to observe lucrative territories and thus leads to smart, informed decision making that will enhance your IP portfolio.

• Allows you to view application and publication trends in any area, so you can plan and envision where future development may occur.

• Custom maps provide the opportunity for flexible analysis to suit your needs exactly.

• Options include comparing assignee and inventor activity; date trends; IPC classification developments, etc.

Global Coverage & Translation Aiding Protection

• PatSnap enables the user to translate any foreign language into English with a simple click of a button. This makes scanning and evaluating foreign patents much more effective and productive.

• Market leading Asia-Pac coverage with real time content validated by 87 analysts.

• Human-powered translation from Mandarin to English in an instant.

• Incorporates algorithms to streamline compatibility with Google Chrome for a faster user experience.

• Integration of Google-powered translation increases efficiency and global surveillance.

• Functional analysiso IPC

• Structural analysis o Technical drawings

• Competitor analysiso Assignee – Patent Family

Defining a Field of Search

Search Methodology

What more can I do with so much patent information?

3D Landscaping (Visual Big Data)

IP Business Report (Statistical Analysis)

Need help?

Joffre Ngjoffre@patsnap.com

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