Platform

1.1

Portfolio Mapping

Classify and map large patent portfolios across technologies, applications, products and competitors. Understand how a technology is evolving and where your organisation stands within it. Map competitors, technical approaches, patent activity, and emerging areas to see where the market is concentrating investment and where gaps remain. Use that intelligence to validate R&D direction, anticipate competitive moves, and identify the technologies and opportunities worth pursuing.

1.2

Landscape Monitoring

Track a technology area continuously and be alerted the moment it shifts. Understand which competitors have entered, which applications have just published, and which technical approaches are accelerating — without rebuilding the analysis by hand each quarter. Set watches on specific technologies, companies or problem areas, and receive alerts as new filings publish, new entrants appear, or activity moves in an unexpected direction. Use that running view to catch competitive moves while there is still time to respond, and keep strategy current between formal reviews.

1.3

Technology Scouting

Describe a technical problem and search globally for the technologies, methods and materials that could solve it. Understand which approaches are already proven, which are still emerging, and who holds the capability behind each one. Scan patents, publications, startups, universities and established players, including industries that have solved the same underlying constraint for entirely different reasons. Use the resulting shortlist to source solutions externally, choose partners, and import proven approaches into a domain where they are still novel.

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What could your team invent next?

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Invention

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Ankar is the AI operating system built for patent and R&D professionals. We offer a comprehensive suite of AI-powered tools that can be tailored to your workflows, helping your team elevate every stage of the innovation lifecycle, from idea generation, to drafting, prosecution and protection. Our partnership-led approach ensures that we can meet your firm’s unique needs, where we will work closely with you to design and deploy the right tools across the entire innovation lifecycle.