See the whole technology landscape before you place your next bet.
A patent landscape turns millions of patent documents into a clear picture of a technology: who is filing, where, how fast and on what. Our analysts, engineers and patent attorneys build landscapes that show where the field is heading, where the white space is, and what it means for your R&D, filing, licensing and investment decisions.
- Trends, players and white space mapped across 150+ jurisdictions
- Competitor and portfolio benchmarking on clean, de-duplicated data
- Strategic recommendations for R&D, filing, licensing and M&A
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A strategic map of a technology, drawn from patent data.
A patent landscape analyses every relevant patent family in a technology area to show how it is developing: the leading companies and inventors, filing trends over time, the countries where protection is sought, the clusters of activity and the gaps where little has been protected.
Unlike a patentability or freedom to operate search, which answers a narrow legal question, a landscape answers strategic ones. Where should R&D focus? Where should we file? Who are we really competing with, and who might we license from, partner with or acquire?
At a glance
- Answers
- Strategic questions about a technology
- Covers
- Patent families across 150+ jurisdictions
- Shows
- Trends, players, clusters and white space
- Used by
- R&D, IP, strategy, licensing and investment teams
- Turnaround
- Typically 10 to 15 business days
- You receive
- Report, visual dashboards and data set
From raw patent data to strategic decisions.
Analysts, engineers and patent attorneys work together, so every chart is backed by clean data and every conclusion is backed by expertise.
Technology-focused patent search
A complete, clean dataset for your technology, built with layered search strategies and reviewed by analysts who know the field.
- Taxonomy of the technology agreed with your team
- Keyword, IPC/CPC, citation and semantic search combined
- USPTO, EPO, WIPO, CNIPA, JPO, KIPO, IP India and 150+ offices
- Patent families de-duplicated to avoid double counting
- Manual relevance review to remove noise
- Non-patent literature added where it matters
Trend and white-space analysis
Where the technology is moving, how fast, and where little has been protected yet.
- Filing trends by year, region and sub-technology
- Emerging clusters and fast-growing topics
- Technology life cycle and maturity indicators
- White space between problems, solutions and applications
- Expired and lapsed patents that open freedom to use
- Opportunities ranked by attractiveness and fit
Competitor mapping
A clear view of who is active, what they are protecting and where they are heading.
- Top assignees with names normalised across subsidiaries
- Competitor filing focus, growth and geography
- New entrants, start-ups and university filers
- Key inventors and research teams
- Collaboration and co-assignment networks
- Litigation and licensing activity of key players
Strategy and portfolio mapping
Your own portfolio placed on the map, with the gaps and strengths made obvious.
- Your portfolio benchmarked against competitors
- Coverage gaps by technology and country
- Filing and prosecution strategy recommendations
- Pruning and maintenance cost opportunities
- Defensive publication and filing priorities
- Board-ready strategic summary
Legal status and quality analysis
Not all patents matter equally. We separate the live, strong and enforceable from the rest.
- Active, pending, lapsed and expired status
- Remaining term and family coverage
- Citation and quality indicators
- Litigation, opposition and re-examination history
- Standard essential declarations where relevant
- Patent thickets and potential blocking clusters
Licensing and acquisition targets
Landscapes that turn into deals: who to license from, license to, partner with or acquire.
- Patent owners ranked for in-licensing or acquisition
- Potential licensees for your portfolio
- Universities and research partners in the field
- Portfolios for sale or held by non-practising entities
- Due diligence inputs for M&A and investment
- Shortlists ready for outreach
The whole field, at a glance.
Every landscape comes with clear visuals that make trends, leaders and white space obvious, backed by the full data set for deeper analysis.
Patent families filed per year
Top assignees (families)
Technology by application
A simplified, fictional example. Real landscapes include dozens of views, from filing heatmaps and citation networks to legal status and geographic coverage, tailored to your questions.
Nine strategic questions, answered with evidence.
A landscape is built around the decisions you need to make. These are the questions our clients most often ask.
Who leads the field?
The top filers, how fast they are growing and where they focus.
Where is innovation heading?
Fast-growing topics, new applications and declining areas.
Where is the white space?
Problems and applications with little protection, ready to claim.
What are competitors working on?
Their filing focus, new directions and products in development.
Where should we file?
The countries where competitors protect and markets grow.
Who could we license or acquire?
Owners of relevant portfolios, and buyers for yours.
Where are the risks?
Dense patent clusters and holders who assert their rights.
Who are the key inventors?
Research teams, universities and potential partners.
How strong is our position?
Your portfolio benchmarked against the field.
The right study for the decision ahead.
Each landscape is scoped to your goal, from a one-off technology map to an ongoing watch.
Technology landscape
A complete map of one technology and its sub-fields: how it has developed, who leads it, where activity is growing and where gaps remain.
- Taxonomy of sub-technologies and applications
- Filing trends by year, country and sub-field
- Top assignees, inventors and new entrants
- Technology clusters and maturity
- White space and emerging opportunities
- Strategic summary for leadership
Competitor landscape
A deep view of one or more named competitors: what they protect, where, and what their filings say about their next products.
- Portfolio size, growth and geography
- Technology focus and shifts over time
- New directions that signal future products
- Key inventors and research partners
- Litigation, licensing and acquisition activity
- Side-by-side comparison with your portfolio
White-space study
Focused on where new protection is still possible, so R&D and filing effort goes where it can create the most value.
- Problem-solution and technology-application matrices
- Gaps ranked by commercial attractiveness
- Expired and lapsed patents that free up space
- Input for ideation and invention harvesting
- Draft filing priorities for the gaps
- Follow-up patentability checks on promising ideas
Portfolio benchmarking
Your portfolio measured against the field and your rivals, so you know where it is strong, where it is thin and what to do next.
- Coverage by technology, product and country
- Quality, citation and remaining-term indicators
- Gaps against competitors and the market
- Redundant or low-value families for pruning
- Maintenance cost saving opportunities
- Filing and acquisition plan to close gaps
Licensing and M&A landscape
Patent owners and portfolios mapped for deals, whether you are buying, selling, licensing in or licensing out.
- Owners ranked for in-licensing or acquisition
- Potential licensees and buyers for your patents
- Portfolio strength and relevance indicators
- Non-practising entities and portfolios for sale
- Due diligence inputs for deals and investment
- Shortlists ready for outreach
Technology watch
The landscape kept current, so new competitors, filings and trends reach you before they reach the market.
- Monthly or quarterly alerts on new filings
- Competitor and new-entrant activity updates
- Grant alerts for opposition windows
- Trend reports with commentary
- Custom dashboards for your team
- Annual refresh of the full landscape
Clean data, or the charts mean nothing.
Most landscape errors come from noisy data: duplicate families, unnormalised company names and irrelevant hits. We fix all three before any analysis begins.
Layered search strategy
Keywords, IPC/CPC classes, citations and semantic search combined, then tested for recall and precision.
Global data sources
USPTO, EPO, WIPO, CNIPA, JPO, KIPO, IP India and national offices in 150+ jurisdictions.
Family de-duplication
Each invention counted once, by patent family, however many countries it is filed in.
Assignee normalisation
Subsidiaries, acquisitions and name variants grouped under the real owner.
Manual relevance review
Analysts with domain expertise remove noise and tag each family to the taxonomy.
Legal status and quality
Status, remaining term, citations and litigation history added to every family.
From your question to a clear strategy.
A structured process keeps the landscape focused on your decision, not on data for its own sake.
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Objectives
Decisions, questions and scope agreed with you.
- 02
Taxonomy
Technology broken into sub-fields and applications.
- 03
Search and clean
Data collected, de-duplicated and normalised.
- 04
Review and tag
Families reviewed for relevance and classified.
- 05
Analysis
Trends, players, clusters and white space analysed.
- 06
Report and workshop
Findings presented, with recommendations.
Most landscapes are delivered within 10 to 15 business days, depending on the size of the technology and the depth of analysis. Faster delivery is available for board meetings and deal timelines.
Request a landscape quoteInsight you can act on, in the format you need.
Reports are written for decision makers, with the detail your technical and IP teams need behind them.
What the landscape includes
Report, visuals and data.
- Executive summary with key findings
- Scope, taxonomy and search methodology
- Filing trends by year, country and sub-field
- Top assignees, inventors and new entrants
- Technology clusters and maps
- White space analysis and opportunities
- Legal status and remaining term overview
- Competitor profiles and benchmarking
- Strategic recommendations
- Full data set in Excel for further analysis
What clients do with it
From the lab to the boardroom.
- Set R&D priorities and project portfolios
- Decide where and what to file
- Benchmark and prune the patent portfolio
- Track competitors and new entrants
- Identify licensing and partnership targets
- Screen acquisition and investment targets
- Spot patent thickets and assertion risk early
- Plan market entry by country
- Brief boards and investors
- Feed ideation and invention harvesting sessions
Built for the people who set direction.
Landscapes serve everyone who needs to make a decision about a technology, from the lab to the investment committee.
CTOs and R&D leaders
Choose research directions and avoid reinventing what others have protected.
Product and strategy teams
Understand where competitors are heading and where the openings are.
IP counsel and law firms
Shape filing strategy and advise clients with evidence, not instinct.
Investors and corporate development
Test technology claims and patent strength before a deal.
Universities and research institutes
Position research and find commercial partners for licensing.
Licensing and monetisation teams
Find licensees, licensors and buyers across the field.
Technical depth in the fields shaping what comes next.
Our attorneys and technical specialists work in the technologies where filing activity is growing fastest, so every landscape is built by people who understand the technology.
Artificial intelligence & ML
Models, training methods and AI applicationsSemiconductors
Chip design, fabrication and packagingTelecom, 5G & IoT
Wireless standards, networks and connected devicesElectric vehicles & mobility
Batteries, charging and drive systemsClean energy & climate tech
Solar, storage, hydrogen and carbon captureRobotics & automation
Industrial robots, control and machine visionMedical devices & digital health
Devices, diagnostics and health softwareBiotechnology & genomics
Biologics, gene editing and sequencingPharmaceuticals
Formulations, processes and new usesFintech & digital payments
Payments, security and financial platformsConsumer electronics & wearables
Devices, sensors and user interfacesAdvanced materials & chemistry
Materials, polymers and chemical processesLandscapes that lead to decisions.
Global companies, law firms and investors rely on us for landscapes that are accurate, clear and strategic.
Domain experts
Analysts with backgrounds in your technology, not generalists.
Patent attorney insight
Legal status, claim scope and risk interpreted by qualified practitioners.
Clean, verified data
De-duplicated families and normalised assignees, reviewed by hand.
Clear visualisation
Dashboards and charts that make complex fields easy to grasp.
150+ jurisdictions
Global coverage, including non-English filings from Asia and Europe.
Strategic recommendations
Every finding linked to an action for R&D, IP or business teams.
Fast, predictable delivery
Typically 10 to 15 business days, with faster options.
Workshop and follow-up
Findings presented to your team, with support for next steps.
Confidentiality
Your technology interests and competitors kept strictly confidential.
Questions about patent landscapes.
Answers to what R&D, IP and strategy teams ask us most.
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Request a landscape quote01What is a patent landscape search?
A study of all relevant patents in a technology area, analysed to show trends, leading players, geographic patterns, technology clusters and white space. It supports strategic decisions rather than a single legal question.
02How is a landscape different from other patent searches?
Patentability, freedom to operate and infringement searches answer specific legal questions about one invention, product or patent. A landscape looks at the whole field to inform strategy.
03What decisions can a landscape support?
R&D direction, filing strategy, portfolio pruning, competitor tracking, licensing and partnership choices, market entry and investment or acquisition due diligence.
04How do you make sure the data is accurate?
We combine several search strategies, de-duplicate by patent family, normalise company names across subsidiaries and review every family for relevance before analysis.
05Which countries do you cover?
More than 150 jurisdictions, including the US, Europe, China, Japan, Korea and India, with non-English documents reviewed through translation.
06How long does a landscape take?
Typically 10 to 15 business days, depending on the size of the field and the depth of analysis. Faster delivery is available when a decision is time-critical.
07What format is the report in?
A written report with charts and dashboards, usually in PDF and PowerPoint, plus the full data set in Excel. We can also present the findings in a workshop.
08Can the landscape be kept up to date?
Yes. A technology watch updates the landscape regularly with new filings, competitor activity and periodic trend reports.
09Can we do a landscape ourselves?
Free tools can give a rough picture, but without clean data, family de-duplication and expert review, the results are often misleading. A professional landscape gives you conclusions you can rely on.
10Is our interest in a technology kept confidential?
Yes. Your technologies of interest, competitors and findings are kept strictly confidential.
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