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Search & Analysis

Change how much you can read, and you change how you decide.

Searching and analyzing patent information. With AI, the volume, the range and the speed of what we can read have all changed. We take the work as far as turning what we gather into a form management can decide on. It is the ground under the design work of the Value Architect.

What Changed

AI changed the premise of searching.

For a long time, search and analysis was bound by how much a person could read. Change the volume you can read, and you change the range you can see. We brought in AI to remove that limit.

01 Volume

Reading through volumes no one could read by hand.

Until now, the target was narrowed down first and then read by people. Anything dropped at the narrowing stage was never seen again. Now we can read the broad population as it is, before narrowing. The very place where things get missed has changed.

02 Range

From Japanese documents to documents worldwide.

Looking only at Japanese-language documents, you cannot notice that the same invention was published earlier overseas. As the language barrier came down, we widened the target to the whole world and can read decades back.

03 Speed

A search that took a month now takes days.

When speed changes, so does where a search belongs. It is no longer a step that keeps a decision waiting. It is a step you can place before the decision. Even while you are still unsure, you can search first and then decide.

Three Questions

We start from what the analysis is meant to find out.

Analysis takes shape only when the purpose is set. Decide the question first, then gather, rather than gathering and then thinking. For the three questions we are asked most often, our searcher has published the procedure using “AI × logistics” as the subject.

CASE 01

We are considering a new business

Do not decide which area to enter on filing counts alone. We organize the market on two axes and read what the gaps mean.

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CASE 02

We are looking for a partner

Who holds the technology your company lacks? We draw candidates out of patent information as material for choosing a partner.

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CASE 03

We want to know where we stand in the market

Set beside your competitors, where does your strength lie? We make the relative position visible and connect it to deciding what to file next.

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Start with the article “What matters in patent analysis”

How It Works

How We Work

  1. 01

    Set the purpose

    First we put into words what the analysis is meant to find out. Information gathered before that is settled cannot support a decision, however much of it there is.

  2. 02

    Build the population

    We design the scope of what is searched. Too wide and it is buried, too narrow and it is missed. The quality of a search is all but decided here.

  3. 03

    Read and sort

    We read the documents we gathered and sort them on chosen axes. It is not the sheer number of filings but the axis you cut on that changes the conclusion.

  4. 04

    Put it in management terms

    We put the results into a form you can use directly in investment decisions and business plans. We do not finish by sending a report.

The Engine

Behind it is the same system that supports our drafting.

The AI we use for search and analysis runs on the same base as the High Speed, High Quality system behind our specifications and office action responses. Memory kept separate for each client, and the management of access rights, work exactly as they do in drafting. We do not keep a looser setup on the side, just for searches.

AI is a tool, and people make the judgments. That order does not change in search and analysis. How the population is designed, and whether the results that come out hold up, are checked by experienced searchers.

See how High Speed, High Quality works Read our AI guidelines

The Team

A dedicated searcher does the work.

SEARCHER

Patent Search and Analysis Specialist

Seventeen years at a Toyota group patent search company in a previous role, covering prior art searches, freedom-to-operate searches, invalidity searches and patent analysis. Staff who specialize in searching work together with our patent attorneys.

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ARCHITECT

Value Architect

Search and analysis can be ordered on its own. If you also need the results carried through to business decisions, the Value Architect who handles that design takes over.

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