Service
See where a technology is crowded and where it is not
A landscape answers strategy questions rather than single-invention questions: who is active, what are they protecting, which sub-areas are saturated, and where does open space remain.
- Who it is for
- R&D leaders setting a research agenda
- You provide
- The technology area and the boundaries you care about
- You receive
- A defined technology taxonomy for the area
Who this is for
- R&D leaders setting a research agenda
- Founders positioning against incumbents
- Institutions choosing where to concentrate effort
What you provide
- The technology area and the boundaries you care about
- Known key players, if any
- The decision the landscape needs to inform
What you receive
- A defined technology taxonomy for the area
- Filing activity over time by assignee and jurisdiction
- Technical clusters, with crowded and sparse areas identified
- Notable families worth reading in full
- A written interpretation aimed at your decision, not just charts
Process
How this work runs
Each step has an output you can read. If a step changes the answer to "stop here", we tell you at that step rather than at the end.
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01
Scope
Agree the technology boundaries and the decision at stake.
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Build
Assemble the dataset using classifications, assignees, and query refinement.
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03
Cluster
Group families into a taxonomy that matches how engineers think about the field.
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Interpret
Explain what the pattern means for your options.
Landscapes describe published filing behaviour. Recent activity is partly invisible because most applications publish around 18 months after filing. White space may be empty for good technical or commercial reasons, and it is not evidence of patentability.
Often taken next
- Freedom to operate — Map in-force patent claims against your product features in the countries you sell in.
- Idea discovery — Turn a field or an unsolved problem into preliminary invention directions worth investigating.
- Questions people ask before starting
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