White Space/ Gap analysis

Client wants to identify areas of a technology, which are at the niche stages of development (white spaces). This enables client to take decisions regarding investments in the white spaces.

Process Flow

Understanding of the technology to be analyzed

Conducting Keyword & Class (IPC, US, ECLA) based search to extract patents/patent applications pertaining to the technology

Building taxonomy to classify the relevant patents/patent applications

Identifying the top Assignees & Inventors of the relevant patents/patent applications

Conducting Assignee, Inventor and Citation based search

Filtering the relevant patents/patent applications on basis of full text analysis

Taxonomy classification of the relevant patents/patent applications

White space identification on the basis of least protected technology domain/ sub domain

Vadroits Value Adds:

Providing products of the top assignees along with a snapshot of market review if available.

Ranking the patents/patent applications based on PRM (patent ranking model) to identify base/essential patent of the technology.

Providing legal status history and litigation analysis of all the relevant patents/patent applications.

Providing Technology evaluation along with the latest updates on technology.

Providing a PowerPoint presentation providing insights on various IP parameters such as filing trends, key players, geographical distribution of patents etc.