Crafitti Patent Services V2

Invention and Patent Services

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Co-Crafting Inventions

Invention and Patent Services

Services

Crafitti’s TRIZ based Patent Related Services Basic Patent Analysis using well-established TRIZ methodology (Level of Invention,

Contradictions and Inventive Principles)

Advanced Patent Analysis using TRIZ with Contradictions, Laws of Technical Evolution, Ideality, Function analysis and Knowledge Effects

Technological Alternatives Study (TAS) on a Patent

Valuation of a Patent using Scenario Planning, TRIZ and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Patent Portfolio Management using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)


Advanced Patent Analysis using TRIZ and Other Techniques

Patents are the most comprehensive source of information and knowledge. In the rapidly globalizing world of

continuous change and cut-throat competition, every enterprise searches for competitive advantage. Patent

information although realized by many as highly critical is not really tapped by enterprises at large, simply as the

understanding of patents as a source of information and trigger for inventing the “next” is still in infancy.

Although there are many open tools and databases

visualization of patent data, there doesn’t seem to be

enough awareness of using patents for inventing the

“next”!

Genrikh Altshuller, a Soviet Union naval patent officer after

Second World War, started a systematic study of patents –

his aim was to find out what makes a successful invention.

Can there be an algorithm for inventing? His search led him to develop a unique methodology called Theory of

Inventive Problem Solving (acronym TRIZ in Russian). In the process he also developed a systematic

methodology to analyze and study patents. TRIZ discovered technological evolutionary laws that surprisingly

can be used to predict the future of an invention.

Crafitti Consulting has developed on the TRIZ way of doing patent analysis and reinforced it with other

techniques to build a comprehensive framework for Patent analysis. For the first time this framework is offered

in India.

The framework is based on following high level techniques

Understanding the level of an invention and a patent

Finding out the key contradictions the invention is solving

Function Diagrams/analysis of a patent/invention to make it more robust

Pruning or Trimming as a means of inventing

Technological Evolutionary Paths of the Invention

System Complexity Estimation

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The framework helps in

Finding Technological Alternatives to a Patent

Writing Future-proof claims of a Patent

Understanding the evolution of an invention compared to prior art

Finding white space in a field to leverage

Basic Patent Analysis using well-established TRIZ methodology (Level of Invention, Contradictions and Inventive Principles)

After studying and analyzing more than 2.5 Million

Patents and Inventions, TRIZ has categorized patents

into 5 levels of inventions. 77% of these fall under

simple modifications or improvements. TRIZ

describes a lens to find out where is on these levels

is the patent/invention. A Level 4 Invention is real

diamond, but rare. Further TRIZ process helps in

finding out what key problems the invention is

solving – if the invention solves a contradiction it

becomes interesting from the point of view of its

increasing strength. Further, TRIZ identified 40

Inventive principles used by inventors. The basic patent analysis gives the level of the invention, contradictions

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• Pioneering Invention – based on newly discovered phenomenon

• Pushing existing technology to a higher level

• RevolutionaryLevel 5 (<0.3%)

• New System Developed

• Interdisciplinary solutions

• Replacing old technology with NewLevel 4 (< 4%)

• Radical change or elimination of one principal system component

• One Engineering Discipline

• Resolution of a physical contradictionLevel 3 (19%)

• Slight Modification of the system

• Knowledge from different areas within the industry

• Resolution of a technical contradictionLevel 2 (45%)

• A simple improvement

• Knowledge within the trade

• No system conflicts are resolvedLevel 1 (32%)

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Read the Abstract – Identify the Key Element of

Invention

Identify the sentence where

the key invention is

mentioned?

Can you also identify the

function or effect produced by

the invention?

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solved by the invention and inventive principles used by the invention. It also gives guidelines on possible

principles that could also be used. This is a very powerful input for the inventors to reinforce their inventions.

Advanced Patent Analysis using well-established TRIZ methodology (Laws of Evolution,

ideality, function analysis, knowledge effects)

Besides the basic analysis, the advanced analysis provides a

mapping of patent on 8 the laws and lines of evolution

defined by TRIZ. A claims hierarchy provides the independent

and dependent claims to study the protection given in the

patent. A detailed report including contradictions, claims

hierarchy, lines of evolution mapping and list of documents

for current relevant art is also presented.

TECHNOLOGICAL ALTERNATIVE STUDY ON A PATENT Objectives and Process

The objective of a Technological Alternative Study

(TAS) is to analyze a given Patent and explore

various ways in which the invention described in

the patent can be transformed to next levels in its

evolution. Crafitti Consulting Private Limited

(http://www.crafitti.com) uses the methodology

of TRIZ and own propriety techniques to help

domain experts generate technological

alternatives to a patent. There are four main

phases of this study and it is always carried out

with the domain experts from client organization.


Phase I: Patent study and analysis A comprehensive search for Patents and other documents in and around the patent is carried out. This involves

study of forward and backward citations of the patent as well as other state of the art documents. The patent of

interest is studied comprehensively and analyzed to find key contradictions identified or solved by the patent.

This phase also provides a mapping of patent on 8 the laws and lines of evolution defined by TRIZ. A claims

hierarchy provides the independent and dependent claims to study the protection given in the patent. A

detailed report including contradictions, claims hierarchy, lines of evolution mapping and list of documents for

current relevant art is also presented.

Phase II: Preliminary ideation Based on the analysis of patent and current state of art, preliminary first level ideation is conducted in house or

in collaboration with the client domain experts. In this process, TRIZ Inventive Principles, Lines of system

evolution and system complexity estimator is used to generate possible ideas to transform and develop the

invention towards a more ideal system.

Phase III: Collective brainstorm in a workshop setting Based on analysis report and preliminary ideation report, a solution generation brainstorm is conducted in a

workshop setting. This involves usage of all tools and information generated during previous phases of the

study.

Phase IV: Solution evaluation and final report submission Using the methodology of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

solution directions are rank ordered and a final report is

submitted which list solutions that are closer to ideality.

Patent Valuation and Patent Portfolio Management

Crafitti uses a comprehensive, propriety methodology based on Scenario Planning, Analytic Hierarchy Process

(AHP) and TRIZ to provide a robust patent, invention and venture valuation. Further, these methods are used in

a hand-in-glove consulting process with our clients for patent portfolio strategy and management.


About Crafitti

Crafitti Consulting is an innovation consulting firm in the business, science

and technology space. Crafitti uses a co-crafting approach to facilitate

innovation in various enterprise contexts with the help of powerful

frameworks, techniques and tools, honed over the years through research,

experimentation and grassroots application.

How do we work with our co-crafters?

The CRAFITTI engagement includes processes to explore any system through our science based proprietary

frameworks developed over a period of almost 2 decades of experimentation, exploration and evaluation. The

process steps include mining Patent and web based information in a particular field to provide large number of

triggers in multitude of directions for the Inventive minds to come out with large number of ideas for developing

products, processes and patents in the chosen technical field. The Co-crafting Innovation methodology results in

a large number of possible ideas that can be converted for commercial benefits in very quick time. Starting from

the vague information about the technological area to look into, the Co-Crafting Innovation process rapidly

penetrates through the barriers of psychological inertia in the minds of experts, to create insights into the

problems that have hitherto been not possible. The systematic way to convert the unidirectional thinking along

the core competencies of the experts in the fields into multi-dimensional storms of ideas in a limited amount of

time is the greatest benefit that the clients have achieved through the Co-Crafting Innovation Engagements.

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