patent map
{{short description|Graphical model of patent visualisation}}
A patent map is a graphical model of patent visualisation. This practice "enables companies to identify the patents in a particular technology space, verify the characteristics of these patents, and ... identify the relationships among them, to see if there are any zones of infringement."[https://books.google.com/books?id=aYFErvCfIfUC&dq=patent+mapping&pg=PT371 From Innovation to Cash Flows:Value Creation by Structuring High Technology Alliances, p349] Patent mapping is also referred to as patent landscaping.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100629032348/http://www.epo.org/patents/patent-information/business/stats/faq.html Patent statistics and patent mapping FAQ] at the European Patent Office
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110704055718/http://202.106.92.141/shangchuan/zmyj0009.pdf Guide Book for Practical Use of "Patent Map for Each Technology Field"], Invention Research Institute, Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, Japan Patent Office, Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center, JIII (2000)