Benefits of re-using PatAnalyse tools by clients
The best available on-line patent knowledge management tools help to facilitate the re-use of project results across the client organisation
The information contained in patents can stimulate fresh ideas and accelerate the innovation process:
- The on-line patent management system provided by PatAnalyse can be used to guide the customer team to key individual patents
- Clients might need to look at competitors’ patents to check the strength of their own IP in order to avoid unnecessary legal and R&D costs
- But these patents also provide a comprehensive source of technical analysis – which frequently highlight the shortcomings of the available solutions
- Putting together a proper understanding of un-met needs with insights into tried and failed technical solutions can often stimulate disruptive innovation – solutions which transcend existing IP landscapes and venture into ‘white space’
Access to an on-line portal for secure sharing
and collaborative re-use of the results of the patent study
- a hosted web based application does not require any input from internal IT teams
- extensive patent mining interface
- highlighting of various keywords in the text presented to the user is achieved using a table of the keywords with colour schemes selected separately for each keyword expression
- capability for zooming down to individual patents via an interactive Patent Maps interface
- Patent Maps are updated each time when shown to users
- each user has the capability of setting-up their own interactive Patent Maps which can be shared between restricted groups of users across the client organisation
- a set of on-line Patent Maps can be exported in jpg format for inclusion in reports and PowerPoint presentations
- possibility to expand taxonomy and to review and modify results of the study
- contradicting opinions from different users are resolved using a weighted voting algorithm
- all entries in the system are date and user stamped
- customisable patent scoring and rating to reveal the strongest set of patents
- commenting notes at the level of individual patent families are enhanced with documents attachment support
- multi-user work flow support is further enhanced with the system of flexible distribution of the required patent information to individual users across the client organisation
- security and role based permissions at different levels for various groups of users with soft firewalls between different departments of the client organisation
- work flow support for large collaborative teams at the client organisation is provided with assistance from the centrally controlled flexible task and role assignment interface
- the whole project can be isolated on a server dedicated to the single client
- the access to such servers is allowed only from the fixed list of IP addresses defined by the client.
The flexibility to convert the one-off study into a subscription to regular updates including patent searches and classification
- A Legal Status Alert can be set for certain patent families from the project portfolio to control their abandonment or the change of the ownership.
- interactive Patent Maps are always up-to-date reflecting the latest state of the patent portfolio
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