The patent landscape is a tool for viewing complex patent landscapes, ie create valuable information. After Germeraad Paual, former Vice President for Research, Avery Dennison, "Frankly, it is incomprehensible why a company at this time also the work of R & D experiment without the ideas, the patent mapping there. It as the attempt to your future business needs blind navigate without a map.
The maps are a graphical representation of the variousInformation gathered from various sources. Communication card is the component of the thematic mapping, is found to be one of many possible outcomes of the knowledge base. The maps are tools for researchers and a specialist in patent searches and make patterns and relationships between the data assigned. Behind The association is an important part of our thinking. We all connections with time. This ability is of great importance in the fieldPatents.
Rational mapping patent is like the distillation of the interpretation of large data sets is often complex and poorly defined in one or more high-value presentations organized useful in business decisions. Patent mapping is the clustering, aggregation, and further work to the value of technology patents to extract in order to highlight certain characteristics and can thus information on the technological developments in a particular field of technology.
There are no shortBoundaries of the presentation. This makes the patent landscape that much art as science, because it must ensure that these representations can be an instrument of knowledge instead of acting visual tools.