Services

Services

Neopatents’ PatentMatrix Diagrams can help visualize the patent claims as well as provide a link to the full text documents for more detailed analysis.

Neopatents® Consulting Services provide strategic and tactical benefits to our clients:

Individual Claims Mapping

The business and legal value of any patent is the claims.  Neopatents provides a PatentMatrix® Diagram for each patent in a portfolio. This diagram is a graphical representation of the claims of a patent that can also link back to the text document for more detailed analysis. This is an effective communication tool for visualizing the focus and scope of an individual patent.  Download the Claims Mapping information sheet here.

Portfolio Mapping and Analysis

But when you want answers, not just data, Neopatents’ use of appropriate automation through the use of our Spore® software allows us to retrieve more accurate search results and focus greater attention on the analysis. provides a Spore® Diagram that clusters the patents in a portfolio by select characteristics such as structure, function, and benefit or by technology group, allowing a company to communicate the focus, scope and value of its portfolio.  Download the Patent Analysis one-sheet here.

Competitive Intelligence Mapping

Instead of simply mapping your technologies, the Spore® Diagram can be used to map the competitive landscape and illustrate technology evolution trends for designing around a competitor’s patent or to target new research areas.  You can always provide us a list of your competitors but we recommend that you let us discover them for you.  As a result of our Spore® software, we identify competitors on the basis of your portfolio/target technologies, not just on known brand names.

Combination Assessments

After mapping your portfolio and that of your competitors, we overlay them to identify overlaps and/or gaps.  This analysis provides you with R&D investment confidence, early identification of potential patent challenges, and the most complete picture of your target technology landscape.

Product Mapping

Management and inventors alike appreciate understanding a patent portfolio in the context of your products.  Through the use of Spore® Diagrams, Neopatents overlays your analyzed portfolio on your products so you know what’s covered and what isn’t (this can also be applied to competitive products for enforcement purposes).  Download the Product Map one-sheet for more information.

Licensing

Neopatents believes in creating commercial impact with patent assets.  Best estimates suggest that 75-95% of any particular portfolio is un(der)-utilized.  Given the limited time to extract patent value, it is important to leverage secondary research to identify likely licensees for underutilized assets in your portfolio.  By taking full advantage of your Portfolio Analysis, Neopatents helps you identify technologies appropriate for licensing.  Learn more about Patent Monetization.

Patent Mining

Where licensing extracts value out of your portfolio, Patent Mining extracts value for you out of your competitors’ portfolios.  Through analysis of the Competitive Intelligence Mapping, Neopatents helps you identify patents you can acquire to fill gaps in your portfolio or counter a cert to resolve litigation.

answers, not just data