This document describes a patent to product mapping workflow that helps companies track competitor patent portfolios and map them to products and business units. The workflow involves collecting patent and product information from various sources, analyzing and categorizing the patents, mapping relevant patents to business units and products, and delivering a structured report on the proprietary web platform. The mapping helps identify strong and weak areas of competitors and find patent strengths for potential mergers and acquisitions.

1. Patent to Product Mapping
Mapping patent portfolio of competitor/yours with products/business units
Description
Companies now are more competitive and want to keep Workflow
track of patent activity of small companies for merger and •Getting patent portfolio from the client/searched by IPCalculus
•Collecting product information from the company website/paid
acquisition. Sometimes small companies have strong 1 databases
patent portfolio in respective technology area. Bigger
companies can target these small companies to increase •Analyzing patents and map them to relevant the business units/products
their patent portfolio without spending in R&D. 2 •Categorize portfolio according to the business units/products
Companies can keep track of their competitors by
mapping their patents with products and business units. •Doing sample analysis
This helps in identifying strong and weak areas of the 3 •Getting feedback from the client
competitors.
•Stating analysis and map patents with relevant business units/products
•Collecting relevant drawings from the patent
Useful for 4
 Find out patent strength of small companies for
M&A •Mapping patent drawings with product images
•Doing analysis according to IPC/US class/ECLA class/Year-wise etc.
 Keep track of competitors 5
 Cost saving in R&D investments
•Finishing Analysis.
 Find strong products to make joint ventures •Creating graphs/charts/tables according to
6 year/assignee/technology/category and combinations
 Find weak and strong areas of competitor
 Track business areas activity of the competitor
•Creating business unit graphs/charts
7 •Structuring the report
Search/Analysis
We collect product information of companies from their •Representation of information in our proprietary web 2.0 platform
respective website/paid databases. We categorize these 8 •Final delivery of the report
products according to the business areas of the company.
We then identify patents mapping with products/business
units by analyzing patents. Results
We also do updating reports monthly/quarterly/yearly as Reporting will be done on a collaborative platform. The
proposed by the client. In case of M&A we also figure out results are summarized in a structured report which
strong patents of companies and mark them according to includes, usually a tabular presentation of the documents
their potential. We provide claim to product map which and references to important passages, grouped according
provides a textual as well as graphical comparison to relevance. It is also possible to have copies of the
between the claims of a patent and a product which aids original documents or relevant passages, in the case of
in easy and objective determination of extent of overlap very long documents. Individual needs can be taken into
between the two. account when structuring the report.
Format
All reports will be stored on our password protected
proprietary web2.0 platform; however it is possible to
deliver report in other formats according to client
requirements.
About us:
IPCalculus is a global intellectual property and technology research services firm. We provide customized services in the
form of competitive patent landscape analysis, technology sector overviews, patent portfolio analysis, patent monitoring
& alerts, patent-product mapping, patent licensing support, trend analysis and various patent searches. Our clients
consists of fortune 50 and fortune 500 companies. Our analysis techniques and visualization tools helps CEOs, patent
attorneys, R&D department, IP department to make effective business decisions. We focus on a niche set of service
offerings and have proven experience in working with counsel in technology and related fields.
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