Patents intelligence from legal and commercial perspectives

Robert Cantrell

World Patent Information, 1997, vol. 19, issue 4, 251-264

Abstract: Competitive intelligence using patents has two major focuses, commercial intelligence and legal intelligence. Where companies use the same technology to solve the same problem, both commercial and legal issues need to be explored with patent intelligence. Where the same technology is used to solve a different problem, issues lean toward the legal end of the spectrum. Where a different technology is used to solve the same problem, the main concerns are commercial. Commercial patent intelligence is best conducted by focusing on patents that a company publishes outside the home country. Legal patent intelligence requires that all patents in a considered technology be examined. Exceptions analysis is particularly useful in commercial patent intelligence and centres around learning a company's standard patenting practices so that patents treated differently can be isolated and examined for possible importance.

Date: 1997
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