More Than 50% Patent Landscape Analysis Are A Waste of Money!
Shikhar Sahni
R&D Strategy | Open Innovation & Tech Scouting | IP Analysis Expert | Sr. VP at GreyB
The consumers of landscape studies are broad which ranges from business executives to university management and from an IP counsel to an R&D team.
Further, they all have their own set of requirements. A business executive, for example, will get a landscape analysis conducted for making a business decision – potential market for a product, revenue expansion, etc., and an R&D team for research & development opportunities – technology alternatives etc.
A patent landscape helps a consumer achieve his goals – get solutions or draw actionable insights – which is its purpose also. To achieve such a purpose, a unique output needs to be crafted based on a consumer’s requirements. Why unique? Because the saying ‘One size doesn’t fit all’, holds true for a patent landscape analysis as well.
On the contrary, a majority of analysis are conducted without having the consumer’s goal and the work area in mind. As a result, the end user fails to draw any insights and an analysis dies by its own hand.
After spending many years in the industry where we delivered 100s of landscape studies and studied nearly a thousand conducted by our peers across the IP industry, we found that more than 50% of the patent landscapes fail to help a consumer in any way.
More than 50% of the patent landscapes fail to help the consumer in any way.
This, however, can be changed by laser focusing on a consumer’s goal in mind during all stages of an analysis. The technology should be grasped and researched to meet consumer’s goals. Not only this but technology categorization, patent bucketing, the type of information to be captured and the insights out of the analysis, all should be derived by keeping the end objective as a base.
Consider a scenario where a business executive and an R&D guy are getting a landscape study on a same technological area. Here, the former wants insights to make better business decisions while the later wants in-depth technical insights.
Will same analysis work for them? Well, I will answer that later in this post. Let’s first discuss the scenario:
A business person may want to know “how he can expand his business?” and from the analysis, he gets “hybrid organic-inorganic lead or tin halide-based Perovskite material is used the most for developing new generation solar cells”.
What’s next, you ask? He will stare at his screen.
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8yIt all depends on the understanding about the patenting and the processing. As each patent can have up to 80% of the technical data that is required for the product or process or for the both together and the capability of the inventor(s) and the patent drafting person. Which only reflects the quality of the research and the ability to convert the output to useful form. I agree that in Indian conditions the cream persons do go for engineering or medicine or for degree and then for MBA. More over we have institutions many hurdles in including administration and management problems due to either professional jealousy or non cooperation from other sections which are supposed to facilitate. In addition most of the inventors do not know how to search for prior art due to lack knowledge about patenting procedures or may reluctant in filing or afraid of others stealing the data for misusing it. Yet there are other processing problems as each patent requires interdisciplinary expertise and skills so one has to work with skilled people to learn the art of patenting as well as inventors should work with people who have mastered the art of research in any field of the area which is totally lacking.