Analyzing companies

Use Analyze companies to create a detailed profile of the innovation activity, core technologies, and key inventors of one or more companies.

You can further focus your search by specifying one or more patent field Filters. If you are entering criteria for one or more patent fields, click Add Filter. For more information about filtering by patent fields, see Fielded search.

To remove a filter, click .

To enter a complex keyword query manually, click Use advanced mode, and then enter your query in the Filters box. As you type, you can click to select additional filters (assignees, dates, patent classes, cities, states, countries), and you can type < (angle bracket) to select an operator (<in>, <and>, <or>, <not>).

To compare two to five company profiles, click Add Company, and then repeat step 1 for each added company.
(If the Language Pack is installed) Select a language for your query from the Query Language list.
In the Search in list, select the appropriate check boxes to specify the patent collections that you want to search. To select all patent collections, click the Patents & Patent Applications check box.
(Optional) To save this query, on the toolbar click Save Query. In the Save Query dialog box, type the name of the query, and then click Save.
Click Analyze. This opens the Select Assignees window.

To clear a query at any time, on the toolbar click Clear Query.