1. Map the location of your patents within an overall patent landscape
2. Understand which competitors are building on your patents
3. Benchmark the patent portfolios of your competitors against one another
4. Identify how your competitors have changed their technology focus over time
5. Identify the countries in which your competitors are seeking international patent protection
6. Identify important inventors who work for your competitors
7. Identify important new players whose recent patents may show potential for being technologically significant

M&A

Due Diligence

1. Identify areas of overlap between the two companies’ patents
2. Identify whether the target has patents that fill gaps within the primary company’s portfolio
3. Identify the target’s core inventors and inventor teams

Post Deal

1. Bucketize the combined entity’s patent portfolio
2. Identify redundancies in the combined entity’s patent portfolio
3. Identify strengths in the combined entity’s patent portfolio
4. Identify patent out-licensing possibilities that are non-core to the combined entity’s new strategy
5. Identify important inventor teams/groups whose patents are important to the combined entity’s strategic focus and/or important to the entity’s competitors – helps to avoid post-merger or post-acquisition layoffs that will harm the combined entity’s competitive position

R&D Planning

1. Identify areas of non-core R&D activity
2. Assess your patenting position compared to your competitors in core R&D areas
3. Analyze your existing patenting position prior to investing in a new area of R&D
4. Identify companies with patents that you can license-in
5. Identify R&D redundancies in different divisions of your company (i.e., are inventors in different parts of the company doing overlapping work?)

How our Service Works

Using in-house software tools and a question-driven patent mining methodology, Metrics will produce a report that meets your needs and budget. Contact Customer Service for more information and to request a price quote.