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Patent analytics: how to read a technology field through patents
A practical guide to patent landscapes: what patents reveal, how to build a search, which indicators to use, the pitfalls, and the debate about patent assertion entities.
- How to build a patent search: keywords, IPC and CPC
A step-by-step method for building a reliable patent search strategy that combines keywords, classification codes and applicant names, and for testing it.
- Patent trolls and NPEs: business models and what the evidence shows
What non-practising entities are, the main business models, the evidence on their effects, how the law has responded, and how companies assess NPE risk.