What is the Filing Trends Report?
What is the Filing Trends Report?
The filing trends analysis identifies the top technology areas where an organisation has increased or decreased their level of patent filing activity over a six year period (discounting the last 18 months).
The analysis will identify the Top 8 Most Growing and Top 8 Most Declining technologies, per portfolio, from the report you select to analyse i.e. the scope of the report is based on the organisations and technologies included in your report.
How to generate the Filing Trends Report
1. Click 'Report Builder' to create a new report
2. Using the organisation search functionality, add portfolios into the report
3. When you're happy with your selection, click 'Next'. From here you can name your report and select your technology grouping options.
4. After running the report, click the 'Export Reports' icon in the top left hand corner of your report (below). Then click the 'Filing Trends' option to begin your excel download:
How to interpret the filing trends report
As previously mentioned, the filing trends analysis identifies the top technology areas where an organisation has increased or decreased their level of patent filing activity over a selected time period. These technologies are listed in the excel sheet.
The analysis will identify up to the eight most growing or eight most declining technologies, per portfolio, from the report you select to analyse i.e. the scope of the report is based on the organisations and technologies included in your report. In each two year period, the number of patent filings are listed:
What is 'Delta'?
The overall change over time.
The delta is calculated by subtracting the total number of filings from the first three years (i.e. 2017, 2018, 2019) from the last three years (i.e. 2020, 2021, 2022). Note: The Classification platform calculates the split of patent filings between 2019 and 2020.
For example, In the example above, the overall change in number of filings for 'Machine learning model...' between 2017-2022 was an increase of 4:
Years 2017/18 = 2
Years 2019/20 = 14
Years 2021/2022 = 0
TOTAL filings = 16
Delta = 4
The total of 16 filings in a technology may not necessarily be significant for that organisation, but it doesn't tell us if there has been an increased focus in this area compared to others. Calculating delta helps to identify dramatic increases / decreases, rather than counting by totals.
Can I specify the time period calculated in the output?
Not currently. The growth metric above is helpful because it evens out the data i.e. if there was a big spike in activity one year, you’d still see the growth for the last six years overall (it would not be skewed by the spike).
What data is being analysed?
All patents filed by the organisation(s) across all technologies in your report.