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Forward Analytics reads the R&D direction of an industry from its patent filings.

Patent landscape reports for companies with no IPR department. Method stated, limits stated.

Two ways to work with us

Off the shelf

a few hundred EUR

Industry-state reports, generated by our own pipeline and published on the site. Who is filing what in your sector, which technology areas are growing and which are flat, and where the filing record disagrees with the industry's own account.

Bespoke

from 5,000 EUR

Your sector, built from scratch. The first deliverable is not a report; it is the taxonomy, the scheme deciding which patents count as your industry and which are noise. You approve it before any analysis runs.

Who this is for

The R&D lead or CEO with no IPR department, where "what are competitors patenting?" has no internal owner. A wrong taxonomy is the one failure that produces a confident, plausible, wrong report — and you know your industry better than any classification code does.

Method

Limits, stated up front

This is a screening instrument, not a freedom-to-operate search. Influence scores are withheld for recent priority years that have not had time to accrue citations. Citation counts structurally understate companies that file in few jurisdictions.

Worked example

Polyolefins — 43,227 patent families, priority years 2005–2024.

Get in touch

Helsinki, Finland.
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