EOU-Based Portfolio Analysis for Semiconductor Patents

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Overview

A leading Semiconductor company sought to identify high-value patents (out of a portfolio of around 300 patents) and perform EOU analysis from a vast pool of over 100,000 products. The challenge was to efficiently map patents to relevant products while ensuring accuracy and depth in analysis.

Challenge

Manually reviewing such a massive dataset - time-consuming and resource-intensive.

AI alone struggled with complex tasks like interpreting figures, chip architectures, and signal flow diagrams.

A precise, efficient method was needed to identify key patents for deeper manual evaluation.

SOLUTION: AI + HUMAN EXPERTISE

Impact & Results

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