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Questel Leading you all along the IP lifecycle
IP Pruning
Michael Klein – October 2014

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BUSINESS VALUE CHAIN
IP PRIOR-ART SEARCH
IP BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
IP EVALUATION
PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
COVERING IP NEEDS ALL ALONG THE INNOVATION LIFECYCLE
PRODUCT
DEVELOPMENT
GO-TO-
MARKET
ASSET
MONETIZATION
IP
CHALLENGES
SPEED R&D
MITIGATE RISKS
AUDIT
MONETIZE
TECHNOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT

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IP BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE WORKFLOW
DEFINE
AN AREA OF INTEREST
CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT
MONETIZE
BENCHMARK
AUDIT
ANALYZE THE OUTCOME
LANDSCAPE
Prior-Art Search
IPBI Module

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Pruning
•To maintain patents alive, associated renewal fees become expensive overtime
•The USPTO and EPO apply the following price structures:
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Pruning
•The Orbit pruning solution allows you to audit your own portfolio and track down:
•the most valuable patents
•those which can be abandoned
•It helps you to make smarter, better and quicker decisions and
•Save money
•Allocate your resources to promising fields and areas
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Pruning
COMPUTE METRICS
SCAN PATENT
PORTFOLIO
MANAGE
RANK
PATENTS

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- Elevators, Escalators and Moving Walkways -
Portfolio Auditing
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Methodology
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•Identification of alive Kone’s art in B66B class
•Portfolio of 864 patents found
•Rating of those patents based on a 12+ metric scale that portrays their appeal to the market
B66B: ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS

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Import or Search a portfolio

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Confirm the searched portfolio

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Pruning - Overview
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Report overview editable criteria
The threshold between the different categories can be adjusted based upon different criteria (family size, forward citations, citation/year etc.)
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Pruning – Detailed Report
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Pruning – Metrics
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The most likely to abandon
- The larger the family the better
- It indicates greater investment and a wider scope for protection
- Score ranges between 0 and 1
- The closer to 1, the wider application across tech groups
- The closer to 0, the more specific application
- Score ranges between 0 and 1 - The closer to 1, the more breakthrough technology - The closer to 0, the more incremental improvement
The presence of predators indicates a more active patent market
- No: not a single member of the family has been litigated in the US, opposed or re-examined anywhere in the world - Yes: at least a member
The higher the better: indicates follow up on work and confidence in the technology
- The more citation the better
- It indicates continued interest in the patent
The higher the better: More independent and dependent claims tend to indicate a wider scope of protection

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Align innovation with company’s strategy
Assess your portfolio based on 12+ metrics
Determine which patents should be investigated and eventually abandoned
Save money and better allocate your financial resources
Plan ahead and anticipate future outcome by pointing out the most likely patents to get rid off in a few years
The Pruning module allows to

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Q&A
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