Size charts available and how to interpret them
Portfolio Size Datasets
The size section has 19 datasets allowing a wide set of analysis. Simply click the size section of your report dashboard to view all of the size charts available in your report.
Saved Chart Set
You can add any chart in Classification to a saved list of charts by selecting the tick in the bottom right of the chart icon wherever you see it.
To access your selected charts, click the 'tick' icon in the top left of your report screen. To save your selected charts to a 'chart set', click the three dots in the top right of this view and select 'Save selection as chart set'. You can then give the 'chart set' a name. For more information on saved charts, click here.
Portfolio Size Data is broken down into datasets providing analysis of:
- Portfolio size - Count of Patent Families
- by organisation
- by technology
- Portfolio size - Count of Patents
- by organisation
- by technology
The analysis you want to undertake, will determine the Portfolio Size chart you select. Below is a description of each chart type to help to choose the relevant ones for your analysis:
Portfolio Size by Family view
Active Families, By Organisation
The dataset above shows the total number of active families in your report (both pending and granted combined), split by organisation. The overall number is displayed in the key to the right, whilst the chart shows the percentage breakdown, illustrating who the biggest owners are across all of your report (if multiple technologies are included in your report, these numbers are aggregated in this chart).
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten owners and how many active families they own, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
This chart is useful to understand who the top owners are of both pending and granted assets combined, across your whole report.
Active Families, By Technology
The dataset above shows the total number of active families in your report (both pending and granted combined), split by technology. The overall number is displayed in the key to the right, whilst the chart shows the percentage breakdown, illustrating how many active families there are in each technology area included in your report (if multiple organisations are included in your report, these numbers are aggregated in this chart).
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten technologies of your report, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
This chart is useful to understand which are the top technologies (of both pending and granted families), and the count in each technology, across your report.
Active Families, By Organisation & Technology
The dataset above shows the total number of active families in your report (both granted and pending combined), split by technology and organisation, illustrating how many active families each organisation owns in each of the individual technology areas.
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten owners & how many active families they own, and the top ten technologies of the report also, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
This chart is useful to understand who owns what, and in which technology areas.
Pending Families By Organisation
The dataset above shows the total number of pending (and actively prosecuted) families in your report, split by organisation. The overall number is displayed in the key to the right, whilst the chart shows the percentage breakdown, illustrating who the biggest owners are of pending families across all of your report (if multiple technologies are included in your report, these numbers are aggregated in this chart).
This chart is useful to understand who has the applications across all of your report (all technologies).
Pending Families By Technology
The dataset above shows the total number of pending (and actively prosecuted) families in your report, split by technology. The overall number is displayed in the key to the right, whilst the chart shows the percentage breakdown, illustrating how many pending families there are in each technology area included in your report (if multiple organisations are included in your report, these numbers are aggregated in this chart).
This chart is useful to understand which are the top technologies of pending families, and the count in each technology, across your report.
Pending Families By Organisation & Technology
The dataset above shows the total number of pending (and actively prosecuted) families in your report, split by technology and organisation, illustrating how many pending families each organisation owns in each of the individual technology areas.
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten owners and how many pending families they own, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
This chart is useful to understand who owns what, and in which technology areas.
Granted Families by Organisation
The dataset above shows the total number of granted families in your report, split by organisation. The overall number is displayed in the key to the right, whilst the chart shows the percentage breakdown illustrating who the biggest owners are of granted families across all of your report (if multiple technologies are included in your report, these numbers are aggregated in this chart).
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten owners and how many granted families they own, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
This chart is useful to understand who the top owners of granted families are, across your whole report.
Granted Families by Technology
The dataset above shows the total number of granted families in your report, split by technology. The overall number is displayed in the key to the right, whilst the chart shows the percentage breakdown illustrating how many granted families there are in each technology area included in your report (if multiple organisations are included in your report, these numbers are aggregated in this chart).
This chart is useful to understand which are the top technologies of granted families, and the count in each technology, across your report.
Granted Families, By Organisation & Technology
The dataset above shows the total number of granted families in your report, split by technology and organisation, illustrating how many granted families each organisation owns in each of the individual technology areas.
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten owners and how many granted families they own, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
This chart is useful to understand who owns what, and in which technology areas.
Active Families, by organisation and status
This chart shows the total number of currently active patent families per organisation split by granted (shown in green) versus pending families (shown in orange). You can also view this dataset in different views i.e. side by side granted versus pending bars, or absolute numbers as shown below:
This chart is useful to:
- Compare actual portfolio sizes overall, and then at the balance of pending and granted families within that
- Does my organisation have as many families in the pipeline as my competitors?
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Does it look like company 'x' has a lot of existing granted families but very little new stuff coming up in comparison to other key players in the technology space?
Active Families, by technology and status
This chart shows the total number of currently active patent families per technology split by granted (shown in green) versus pending families (shown in orange). You can also view this dataset in different views i.e. side by side granted versus pending bars, or absolute numbers as shown below:
This chart is useful to understand:
- Is this a rapidly growing technology, or is relatively little being filed in this space now?
- What can I project/predict about the size/ importance of this technology in the future?
- Is my company focussing enough (or too much) on this area according to what the general trends seem to be?
Expired Families, by organisation
The above dataset shows how many expired patent families organisations have or had. The key to the top right displays the total number of expired families corresponding to a colour within the pie chart. Whilst the chart itself displays the percentage level (of expired patent families 'owned') across the technologies included in the report.
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten owners and the total number of expired families they own, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
Expired Families, by technology
The above dataset shows expired patent families organised by the different technology areas included in your report. The key to the top right displays these technology areas as well as the number of expired families associated with each of the technologies. Whilst the chart shows you the the percentage breakdown of expired families across all technologies combined.
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten technologies (with the most expired families) however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
Expired Families, by organisation and technology
The above dataset shows how many expired patent families organisations own broken down by the different technology areas included in your report. The y axis shows the technologies included and the x shows the organisations. Totals running along the bottom and right allow you to see the total expired families for an organisation or for a technology.
Both the organisations and technology lists will default to the top 10, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
All Families, by organisation
The dataset above shows the total number of ALL families in your report (across any status such as pending, granted, expired, rejected), split by organisation. The overall number is displayed in the key to the right, whilst the chart shows the percentage breakdown, illustrating who the biggest owners are across all of your report (if multiple technologies are included in your report, these numbers are aggregated in this chart).
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten owners and how many families they own overall, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
All Families, by technology
The dataset above shows the total number of ALL families in your report (across any status such as pending, granted, expired, rejected), split by technology. The overall number is displayed in the key to the right, whilst the chart shows the percentage breakdown, illustrating what the biggest technologies are across all of your report (if multiple organisations are included in your report, these numbers are aggregated in this chart).
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten owners and how many families they own overall, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
All Families, by organisation and technology
The dataset above shows the total number of ALL families in your report (across any status such as pending, granted, expired, rejected), split by technology and organisation, illustrating how many families each organisation owns regardless of status, in each of the individual technology areas.
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten owners and the total number of families they own, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
Portfolio Size by Patent View
Granted Patents, by organisation and technology
The dataset above shows the total number of granted patents within your report, split by technology and organisation, illustrating how many granted patents each organisation owns in each of the individual technology areas. This excludes rejected, expired, or inactive patents.
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten owners and how many granted patents they own, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
This chart is useful to understand who owns what, and in which technology areas.
Applications and granted patents, by organisation and technology
The dataset above shows the total number of individual applications or granted patents combined, in your report, split by technology and organisation, illustrating how many applications and granted patents each organisation owns in each of the individual technology areas.
In the first instance, this chart will show the top ten owners and how many applications and granted patents they own, however you can extend this out to show the top 25, top 50 etc.
This chart is useful to understand who owns what, and in which technology areas.
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