White space analysis
Discover unspoken and unmet needs before others using White Space Analysis
Patent white space analysis identifies gaps in the patent landscape that can open potential opportunities for product or technology advancement. You can use white space analysis to upgrade your portfolio and explore newer technology areas for unmet needs. PatSeer’s powerful and flexible analysis tools help you at each stage of the white space analysis process and thereby gain that competitive edge.
The only white space analysis toolbox you need to help make well-informed business decisions
Plug the gaps in your existing IP portfolio
Mapping your existing IP against a problem solution matrix is the start of finding adjacent areas or gaps where your IP currently falls short. PatSeer makes it easy to conduct such mapping exercises and contains targeted analytics to help identify the potential gaps.
Expand into new technology areas
Finding out promising complementary technology areas to enhance existing IP portfolio can be a challenge since you may not know the deeper technology nuances of targeted area. PatSeer provides a wide range of text-mining, trend analysis and multi dimensional analytic tools to help uncover white spaces and identify new technical areas without too much manual effort.
View the patent landscape from your own lens
Bring your own technology and business perspective into the white space analysis with the help of hierarchical categories and custom fields. Quickly analyze your strengths and weakness around these new viewpoints. Use PatSeer’s tools for generating clusters, topic maps, IPC/CPC charts and co-occurrence matrices to get quick insights about the overall technology area and to decide the right categories that can lead to the meaningful and promising gaps.
Complete set of pre-processing, analysis, and mapping tools to aid each step
Leverage multi-hierarchy and multi-dimensional co-occurrence matrices in PatSeer to analyze your category buckets. Associated heatmap visualizations over a generated matrix help uncover white space, if any, in the portfolio. You can also use multi-generation forward citation analysis for tracking the use of technology in different application areas and thereby uncovering new areas for your IP.
Share your insights for collaborative decision-making over identified gaps
Confirm the existence of white space by critically reviewing the patents with the help of IP teams, attorneys and inventors. Streamline the decision making process by involving the relevant stakeholders into correlating your findings with the business strategy. Use PatSeer’s powerful collaboration options to share specific datasets and generated charts/matrices in a dashboard with the relevant stakeholders.
Patent data can be complex, but getting the right answers shouldn’t be
Go Beyond White Space Analysis
PatSeer takes care of other strategic IP decisions too! Find out if your research investments are headed in the right direction, evaluate the legal strengths and positions held by key players in a technology space or qualitatively assess your patents with the help of scoring models and identify technology trends.
