3. Refine your patent base analysis

3.1 Set up strategic groups

As it is not uncommon to carry out studies on several hundred patents, it is obvious that the analyses carried out on the whole will be more complicated to interpret due to the multiplicity of data present. For this reason, it is advisable to create strategic groups of data (patent notices) which can then be analyzed independently, facilitating interpretation and the selection of the most relevant patents.

What is a strategic group? When you select patents by technologies, applicants, priority countries, significant expressions in titles or abstracts,...