Urs Dommann is a Senior Executive at Evalueserve, a professional services company that provides 100% customised primary and secondary business information and intellectual property services to its clients in Europe and the US. Evalueserve boasts a wide service area including sites in India, China and Chile. Prior to working with Evalueserve, Urs was a licensing executive with a pharmaceutical licensing company and a patent attorney with a Swiss law firm. Urs has a Masters degree in Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.

Gain More Insight Using Patent Information

Patent analysis can create significant value for a company by helping it understand and predict technological trends and competitor technical capabilities, uncover competitor patenting strategies, and discover competitor research interests. In addition, hidden information can be extracted if patent analysis is combined with business research and the insights from all sources are synthesised by a business analyst. The session will discuss traditional approaches and present innovative solutions on how additional information can be extracted from patent information, how patent analysis can be combined with business research and how the insights can be shared with different stakeholders within an organisation by using feedback and knowledge management tools. The session will discuss critical elements such as the initial patent monitoring/analysis, the analysis and synthesis of information, tools to make customised information available to various business units and often neglected feedback mechanisms to integrate internal know-how. Case studies from different industries will illustrate the tools und insights that are beyond the scope of traditional patent analysis.  

Presentation Goals

• Show CI professionals the value of patent analysis for their own work
• Understand what can be extracted from patent information beyond the obvious
• Develop an understanding on how to build a patent monitoring system and how to share the resulting insights with different stakeholders