Our patent insight reports focus on future and emerging technologies - in other words technical fields that have yet to reach a critical mass of patent applications. They are designed to provide valuable insights into these potentially disruptive technologies.
The methodology underlying these reports is free to use, meaning that anyone can apply our analytical approach to reveal trends and prospects in other future and emerging technologies.
For each report, we develop a search strategy, using unique attributes of EPO data such as classification (CPC), citations and patent families. The search strategy is then applied, optimising both recall and precision, to create a technology-specific dataset based on EPO data. The resulting reports act as "snapshots" of emerging technologies, taken in the light of patent data.
The report provides, in the
light of publicly available patent information, an
overview of quantum computing at large and of the following sub-sectors:
physical realisations of quantum computing, quantum error correction and
mitigation, and technologies related to quantum computing and artificial
intelligence/machine learning.
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The report provides insights into patenting
activity in space-borne sensing technologies. The study, jointly produced by the
EPO and the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in collaboration with the
European Space Agency (ESA), focuses on remote sensing
data applications that can help to mitigate climate change. These include
weather forecasting, detecting pollution, protecting biodiversity and
monitoring the environment.
This joint study by the EPO and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) uses patent statistics to reveal the trends and dynamism in the field of hydrogen that can be produced using renewable electricity. Renewables-based hydrogen can be used in the chemical sector and as a fuel. It is abundant and can be obtained through the electrolysis of water in the presence of electrocatalysts. This makes hydrogen very attractive as a green energy source, provided that its production is green too.
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Prepared by the EPO and the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), this report provides insights into the patenting activities for quantum technologies specifically as they relate to the space sector. These technologies are primarily used in secure communications, in time and frequency transfer, as well as in Earth observation and sensing. This report considers three key quantum technologies that enable these main application areas.
This
study conducted by the EPO and the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in
collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) investigates the development
of the technology of travel beyond Earth's atmosphere into outer space. In the context of spacecraft, patent analysis reveals insight into
technology trends, rankings of spacefaring countries and league tables of large
and small industry, private and public organisations.
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This study commissioned by the European Patent Office demonstrates the application of patent information to gain insights into specific technological fields, in this case Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Immunotherapy (CAR T-cell Immunotherapy). A peer-reviewed paper was published in Nature Biotechnology and featured in a recent online seminar.
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This study conducted by the European Patent Office shows that the number of patent filings for second-generation quantum metrology and sensing devices is still small but has recently started to grow. It also reveals that a large proportion of the patent filings in this field come from academia, suggesting that researchers still account for most knowledge and exploitation of quantum physics.
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