Patent Research and Analysis

Patent analyses and evaluations are gaining in importance as international competition intensifies and development cycles become shorter and shorter.

fka assists its clients in securing strategic business development by analyzing national and global patents and assessing them at system and component levels. During the analysis, it identifies potential competition technologies and evaluates the current competitive situation on the basis of the generated information.

As part of the patent analysis, the following process steps can be used to obtain relevant and meaningful information:

• Extensive technology analysis to build up relevant system and component understanding.
• Identification of IPC’s patent classes with high relevance for considered technology with our own IPC Patent Class Identification Logic.
• Analysis and evaluation of identified patents in identified IPC patent classes by using our own evaluation routine.
• Description of the state of the art of the technology field under consideration and identification of potential alternative technologies.
• Analysis of the competitive situation and supporting the results through interviews.

As a result, the customer receives a detailed result matrix of the evaluated patent information, on the basis of which the patent portfolio can be optimally evaluated and strategic business areas secured.