Research-based firms continuously seek to discover new ideas and new technologies and to translate these into unique products. Products that can be protected from competition by patents or other intellectual property rights. This requires a solid knowledge of the market and the trends in the market; who are your competitors and who are potentially your partners?
This is where a patent map will help you. Mapping the patent landscape will give you an overview of and insight into patent clusters and other relevant patent data, including relationships among the data points in the patent map.
A map will also increase your potential for developing new technologies that can be patented and that will reinforce existing markets or secure new market shares.
