IP Analytics — at microscopic level — very rapid

In conjunction to our extensive patent, data, and search capabilities/tools, we offer consultative services to help corporations, institutions, law firms, or even individual inventors/analysts gain deep insights into the particular IP challenge or opportunity that confronts them.

Understanding an idea or concept, a patent, a portfolio of patents, or the landscape of 100’s or even 1,000’s of patents and how to organize and prioritize this in IP and economic terms can be daunting – we offer the tools and custom services to allow for extremely rapid decision-making and action.

Contact Erik Reeves at erik.reeves@sumobrain.com for more information about these services.

White Space Consulting

We have partnered with Sopheon (www.sopheon.com) to offer very specialized services around uncovering white space — spaces not yet occupied by competition. Sopheon is a leading international provider of software and services for product life cycle management and innovation– together we offer access to powerful insights through our combined Monitor – Catalyst solution and consulting services.

Using a proven, rigorous process and advanced analytics tools, clients can:

1. Shorten technology development time by enabling researchers to be proactive in their FTO research; we can shorten research cycles from months to days, from many days to hours!
2. Quickly uncover opportunities for new technology applications without risk of patent infringement or long waiting times.
3. Enable scientists and engineers, IP specialists and research professionals to carry out their research as independently as possible by giving them an easy-to-use tool that produces reliable results; remove dependency from expensive internal or external research facilities.
4. Enhance the level of business intelligence within R&D departments and detect white spaces before others find them; move from birds eye to the microscopic view.
5. Improve the reuse of knowledge within an organization or a network of organizations.
6. Improve the quality of decision-making around research and innovation investments.

Typically the method for optimal ROI is for a client to start with a workshop that Sopheon and SumoBrain facilitate, allowing for proper customization of the exercises and tools to a particular problem or opportunity that a client wants to investigate.

Our goal is to leave the client with the tools and capability to drive this process themselves, integrating it real-time into operations and improving decision-making and resource allocation in R&D (and potentially throughout the entire supply-chain). One example of the kind of output clients get (and can generate themselves) is a variety of landscape visualization and matrices (one version is show below).
 
 

 
We are very excited about the partnership with Sopheon and the collective intelligence, tools, and experience we can bring to a client engagement. To find out more about the tools, our WhiteSpace workshops, or get a free demo, contact Erik Reeves at erik.reeves@sumobrain.com

Patent Search Partner:
Do you need a reliable patent search partner? The staff at SumoBrainSolutions lives and breathes patents. We’ve spent the last six years building and enhancing our patent search engine, understanding the nuances of patent data collections world-wide, and pondering the best strategies to assure finding relevant prior art in field where a table can be described as “a planar surface supported by at least three upright members.”

We doubt you will find experienced patent searchers, with advanced degrees in a variety of technical fields which allow them to understand your most complex invention disclosures, who know the ins and outs of patent search engines like the back of their hands, anywhere else.

Our staff can handle nearly any search in fields ranging from genetic engineering to electrical engineering, and computer science to physics. Whether you need a quick novelty search, or are involved in litigation and need the most comprehensive validity search you can find, or anything in between, contact us today. You’ll be happy you did.

PATENT ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

Existing commercial software is too hard to learn, too expensive, too slow and most of all, too difficult to get to meaningful decision-making information that makes money. Evolve from traditional complex month-long analysis projects to meaningful insights and actionable data today with CobaltIP.

START IMMEDIATELY

We began the CobaltIP project by completely re-envisioning every aspect of patent analysis. For example, CobaltIP is a web application, but rather than feel confined to a browser window, it looks and feels more like a desktop or workspace area – our whole design philosophy was about simplicity and shortening the time to getting answers to your key patent analysis questions the first time you use the software.

TAKE CONTROL OF THE DATA

We completely reinvented patent investigation with our powerful grids. Before CobaltIP, existing search results grids were inefficient, showing thousands of hits with no actionable information and no logical next step. Our grids quickly allow you to analyze data along 40+ dimensions – removing hours and hours of off-line spreadsheet manipulation and analysis so typical in IP analysis projects.

DRIVE FAST… REALLY FAST

We made it lightening fast. Nobody wants to wait for a result. CobaltIP is powered by an enhanced version of the hyper-fast Catalyst Engine (revolutionizing data processing and analysis) – you know the one… it powers the FreePatentsOnline.com search engine that, for over 7 years, has supported over 15 million searches per month and is widely considered the gold standard for speed and reliability.

THINK BIG

It had to be a true enterprise application, allowing for virtually unlimited number of documents in a research folder, analytics and charting within a folder, folder sharing, comment sharing, and account management features. We made CobaltIP scalable and feature-rich, allowing you to quickly get your projects done without concern for scale or speed – managing upwards of 100 million full-text documents and serving over a billion visitors – has armed us with the tools and experience to let you think big.

VIEW DATA THE WAY YOU WANT

Charts had to be fully customizable. From a base set of 15 charts, you can create unlimited permutations. You have full control of what each chart looks like. We wanted multi series charts so we can compare two series side by side. We wanted to make full use of complementary data sets such as reassignment data and maintenance events and get real-actionable data on each.

KEEP IT SIMPLE

Finally, we knew it had to be easy for the part time researcher, but powerful enough for the full time patent data analyst. Getting started with CobaltIP is very intuitive and fast.

Take the free trial and see for yourself!