3. Refine your patent base analysis
Now you can refine your analysis. As the possibilities offered by APA (Automatic Patent Analysis) are very broad, we cannot describe here all the possible analyses to be carried out.
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...
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