Two ways to work with us
Sector reports
A standing read on a defined industry's patent filings: who is filing, which technology areas are accelerating or going flat, and where the filing record disagrees with the industry's own narrative.
Custom engagements
Your sector, built to order. The first deliverable isn't the report: it's the technology scope that decides what counts as your industry and what's noise. You review and sign off on it before any analysis runs.
Who this is for
R&D leads, strategy teams and executives who need a clear, outside read on where an industry's patent activity is heading, without standing up that capability in house. Getting the technology scope right is the step that decides whether a report is useful or just confidently wrong. That's why you review and approve it yourself before we analyze anything: you know your industry better than any off-the-shelf classification scheme does.
Our approach
- Every engagement starts with a technology scope built and validated for your industry, not a generic classification applied as-is.
- Patents are consolidated at the family level worldwide, so the same invention isn't counted once per country it's filed in.
- We date filings by first priority, not publication, and adjust recent years for the reporting lag built into how patent offices publish data.
- We test trends statistically before calling them trends, using methods built to hold up against the noise and outliers common in patent data.
- We measure influence from citations received and exclude self-citations, so a company can't inflate its own standing.
Full methodology documentation, including the specific statistical techniques and data sources used, is available to clients as part of an engagement.
Limits, stated up front
This is a screening instrument, not a freedom-to-operate search or a legal opinion. Influence scores are withheld for recent priority years that haven't had time to accrue citations. Citation counts structurally understate companies that file in few jurisdictions.
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Get in touch
Helsinki, Finland.
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