Trends Analysis

Technology trends mapping, Mergers and Acquisitions and Lawsuit

Brief Overview
Trend analysis is a comprehensive analysis of patents that
enables strategists, scientists and attorneys take key
decisions in new product launching, finding out market
trends in technology, mergers and acquisitions and filling
Steps followed
•Identification of client's purpose
1 •Background Study/Technology Understanding/Market Study

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lawsuit.

Trend analysis is usually suitable for planning any M&A or
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lawsuit. To ease the commercialization of new research
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•Accumulation of concepts together and creation of Mind Map
•Query building using various keywords obtained from background/concepts

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•Patent searching in Micropat/ database requested by client
breakthroughs, more research-driven companies are •Also using IPC/US class/ECLA/F-term/assignee in search according to client's
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planning future research with patent landscaping studies.

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Trend analysis study shows, for a given general field of •Doing sample anlaysis and forming layout of the report
•Getting back to the client for corrections/suggestions on query and final delivery

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technology, what areas are potentially rife with third 4 format

party patent problems, and, by contrast, what areas

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•Giving final touch to the query and finalizing it with the client
remain relatively free of third-party patents and possibly 5 •Starting Analysis

is available for appropriation.

•Creating trend maps according to year/assignee/technology/category and
combinations

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6 •Finishing Analysis and updating tables/graphs/drawings
Benefits you would derive
o Field-wide trends affecting the entire field of • Structuring report

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•Taking notes about changes (if required)
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technology as a whole.
o The identity and activity of the various competitors
active in the field. e •Representation of information in power point format /some other format too (depends
upon the client's need )
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8 •Final delivery of the report
o Within the broad field of technology, trends
affecting specific technological subspecialties.
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o Geographic information pertaining to where the Output
research activity is happening. Reporting and results will be given on Microsoft excel as
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well as on our interactive platform where clients can

Methodology for Search/Analysis review the results in an easy to digest format. Trends can
Our expert team of patent analysts performs rigorous be classified according to technology area as well as
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data mining, data visualization and data analysis to application area. It can also be categorized according to
generate a patent landscape that helps clients identify client’s requirement.
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competitive and technology trends.

Delivery format
Analysis is done on detailed taxonomy generated by our
All results will be stored on password protected
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patent analysts.
encrypted content management system, however it is
Trend analysis is done based on priority year wise
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possible to deliver report is other formats according to

happening. It can also be done based on publication year
client requirements.
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wise/application year wise. Various trends like treatment

wise trends, field wise trends, application wise trends,
components wise trends etc. is also possible.
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About us:
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Hadron is a global intellectual property and technology research services company based in India with people from IITs,
IIMs and IISc. We provide services in the form of patent landscape report, patent portfolio management, patent
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licensing support, patent searches and market research. Our clients consists of fortune 50 and fortune 500 companies.
We at Hadron combine science with technology to make lives a little easier. Our analysis techniques and visualization
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tools helps CEOs, patent attorneys, R&D department, IP department to make effective business decisions and plan the
future. We focus on a niche set of service offerings and have proven experience in working with counsel in technology
and related fields.

www.hadronanalytics.com Email: info@hadronanalytics.com