Patent intelligence for R&D teams that would rather see it coming

Good patent intelligence for R&D starts from an uncomfortable fact: the newest filings are the ones nobody can see yet. Most applications publish about 18 months after their earliest filing date, so by the time a competitor’s new direction shows up in the record, its first filing is already about a year and a half old. Monitoring is how you shorten that blind spot, by noticing patterns early rather than reacting to single documents late.

The trouble with most monitoring is volume. Alert feeds bury the one filing that matters under hundreds that don’t, and busy teams learn to ignore them. Our Watch digests are written by an analyst who reads the new filings against the questions you set, and tells you which few deserve a meeting.

The other pressure is cost. Keeping a single US patent in force to full term costs a large entity $14,470 in USPTO maintenance fees alone, under the current fee schedule. Multiply that across a portfolio and the question of which families still earn their place becomes a budget line. Pruning analytics rank keep, sell, license, or lapse candidates before each fee window, so the decision is made on purpose rather than by default.

Landscapes, scouting, and standards mapping round out the picture: where the open ground is, which outside technologies could fill a gap, and how your portfolio lines up against the standards your products implement.