IP management

IP management begins with the evaluation of our competitor's patents and trademarks in the early stages of the development of new products, and ends up with the protection of our own prototypes. Though it is advisable to get the professional services of a patent agent along the process, virtually all published patents worldwide are freely accessible through Internet. This vast array of information offers an invaluable source of inspiration at the early stages of development. Furthermore, IT tools for creating visual content-related maps of large collections of documents are already available.



When it comes to mining patent information, Sp@cenet is probably one of the best choices. This free service from the European Patent Office covers more that 70 million documents (worldwide), accessible through an straightforward interface.

Additionally, an interesting service offered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) are the patent landscapes, comprising:

Public Health / Life sciences
Climate Change / Energy
Food and Agriculture
Larger Patent Landscape Collections, Technology Bulletins and Other Relevant Links

Converting raw lists of patents into competitive intelligence may not be an easy task when we're dealing with large quantities of documents. Specialized software transform lists of documents into topological content maps which are used to visually detect patterns, relationships and strategies hidden beneath large numbers of patent documents.