① Technical competition analysis: By analyzing all patents owned by competitors or all patents in this technical field, we can determine the relative competitive position of competitors and their relative technical competitive advantages and disadvantages.
② Integrated S-curve analysis: By integrating S-curve analysis, we can predict the future technological strategic trend of competitors at an early stage.
③ New risk assessment: After determining the strengths and weaknesses of competitors through patent analysis, companies can selectively buy and sell appropriate patented technologies to assist the decision-making of expanding and diversifying risks.
④ Patent portfolio management: Patent analysis can assist the decision-making of patent licensing, sales and joint venture development.
⑤ R&D management: Patent analysis can find competitive advanced technologies and optimize your own R&; Item d
⑥ Product field and market supervision: By tracking the patent application field and scope of competitors, we can know the trends, technological development and competition participation of competitors.
7 M&A analysis: Patent analysis can assist M&A; A decided to strengthen the company's technical foundation and reduce technical threats.
⑧ Value chain analysis: It can analyze the patent activity information of suppliers and customers, observe the potential changes of each link in the value chain, and assist the company to make corresponding adjustment decisions.
Patent analysis provides a broad application prospect for strategic decision-making of enterprises. Enterprises constantly dig more valuable competitive intelligence from patent data in patent analysis, thus serving enterprise decision-making through various strategic applications.
For example, in a patent analysis of the global sodium sulfide battery industry in 1980s, 284 related patents during the period of 1966 ~ 1982 were counted, combined and analyzed, and the patent application fields and technical value of each company were counted in the technical competition analysis. It is found that in the fields of electrolyte and design, Ford, GE and chloride silent power supply have the largest number of patent applications and relatively high average citation rate, so they have relatively strong technical competitiveness in these two fields and are market leaders. In the new risk assessment, it is found that the technical advantages of Ford and chlorine silent power are complementary, so the two companies can learn from each other through cooperation, such as joint risk development, thus reducing investment risks and enhancing competitiveness. At the same time, it is found that GE Company withdrew from this technical field on 1982, and its corresponding patented technology can be transferred, and relevant enterprises can negotiate with GE Company to acquire its valuable patented technology.