What this article covers
- Explains what PatentSight+ is and the patent analytics capabilities it provides.
- Shows the key business questions PatentSight+ helps answer across competitive intelligence, portfolio management, and technology scouting.
- Describes who uses PatentSight+ and how different organisations apply it to support IP strategy and business decision-making.
- What is PatentSight+?
- What Does PatentSight+ Help You Achieve?
- Who Uses PatentSight+?
- Why It Matters
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What is PatentSight+?
PatentSight+ is a patent analytics platform that enables users to answer competitor and technology intelligence questions, all within a single browser-based tool. Users can search and analyse patents from more than 90 patent offices, using curated patent data and a range of customisable charts and tables.
Alongside established patent indicators, PatentSight+ includes its own set of scientifically validated indicators, the Patent Asset Index methodology, covered in detail in The Patent Asset Index Methodology.
PatentSight+'s data curation also allows users to identify pending, active, and inactive patent families for owners with complex corporate structures, tracked accurately over time and without hindsight bias.
What Does PatentSight+ Help You Achieve?
PatentSight+ turns patent data into a window on new technologies, inventions, and innovation, supporting a wide range of competitive and technology intelligence questions. Common use cases include:
Competitive Intelligence & Benchmarking
- Monitor and analyse competitors' R&D strategies, competitive landscapes, and technology landscapes
- Identify emerging competitors and new market entrants
- Support portfolio management, risk assessment, and portfolio optimisation
Portfolio Management & Cost Optimisation
- Determine a portfolio's competitive strengths and weaknesses
- Increase portfolio efficiency, define internationalisation strategies, and manage annuity costs
- Uncover pruning potential and cost-saving opportunities
Technology Intelligence & Scouting
- Identify disruptive technologies and reveal R&D trends
- Explore complementary technologies and evaluate acquisition targets for technological fit
- Identify growth opportunities in emerging markets and competitive advantages in future-oriented technologies
- Support sustainable-investment decision-making and stakeholder engagement
Who Uses PatentSight+?
A wide range of users rely on PatentSight+ for different purposes:
- Corporations — IP departments (analysts, R&D management, and senior leadership)
- Start-ups — often using PatentSight+ to support funding conversations
- SMEs and conglomerates — for R&D and innovation management challenges
- Law firms — including lawyers, support staff, and technical support teams
- Advisory and consulting firms — business analysts and knowledge centre managers
- Investors — data analysts and data scientists
- Governmental and non-governmental institutions — economists, policy analysts, and policymakers
- Academics — researchers and other scholars
Why It Matters
Whatever the user type, a large corporation managing a global portfolio, or a start-up seeking funding — PatentSight+ turns raw patent data into evidence for strategic decisions. Law firms use it to inform M&A activity and strengthen client advisory work; corporations use it to prioritise R&D and manage risk; investors and policymakers use it to understand innovation trends at a market or industry level.