recipe-patent-landscapelisted

# Recipe: Patent Landscape Analysis Map the patent landscape for a technology area, identifying key players, trends, and gaps. Each database uses its own query syntax — see `flowleap-uspto` for the USPTO Lucene grammar. ## Steps ### Step 1: Define Search Scope ```bash flowleap patent build-query "<technology description>" --allow-external-processing flowleap uspto build-query "<technology description>" --allow-external-processing ``` Done when you have an EPO CQL query and a USPTO ODP query for the area. ### Step 2: Broad Patent Search ```bash flowleap --json patent search --query "<CQL from step 1>" --limit 50 flowleap --json uspto search --query "<recommended_query from step 1>" --limit 50 ``` Done when both databases have returned their result sets. ### Step 3: Corpus Analytics ```bash # Filing trends by year, country and CPC breakdowns, top assignees flowleap --json analytics --keyword "<technology>" --date-from 2015-01-01 flowleap --json analytics --cpc <cpc-prefix> --country US --date-from 2020-01-01 ``` ### Step 4: Identify Key Players Build applicant-scoped queries rather than hand-writing CQL — see `flowleap-patent` for the CQL fields (`pa=` applicant, `ti=` title): ```bash flowleap patent build-query "<top assignee> patents in <technology>" --allow-external-processing flowleap --json patent search --query "<CQL from build-query>" --limit 30 ``` ### Step 5: Check Recent Activity `patent search` returns relevance-ranked hits; `ops search --cql` adds CQL