Using "Risk Patents" to improve your IP position

Imagine if you could efficiently look for patents that may provide an IP risk in relation to an entire portfolio (or subset of a portfolio)? With Ambercite you can, and this case study shows a systematic process that soon led to finding Risk Patents that have been asserted against Apple for their digital assistant ‘Siri’.

The process used is that shown below.

In this case, I started with a set of patents filed by Apple for a digital assistant, and looked at the 250 most similar patents. 250 patents may sound like a lot, but in practice this process is straightforward and systematic. And very quickly ended uncovering a relatively obscure patent that appears to have been successfully asserted against Apple - as the analysis suggested it could be.