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From Portfolio to Abandonment List: What a Patent is Worth When Value is Computed from Evidence of Use
Date: 17 November 2026
Time: 2pm GMT | 3pm CET
Patent portfolio reviews remain one of the most important and resource-intensive exercises for IP teams, yet many maintenance decisions are still driven by traditional indicators such as citations, family size, patent age, and expert judgment. This webinar explores a new approach: assessing portfolio value based on evidence of real-world use. Leveraging advances in large language and multimodal AI, organisations can now analyse patent claims at scale, identify products and technologies that appear to practise those claims, and generate maintenance scores grounded in market activity rather than proxy metrics. The session will examine how these systems work, the opportunities they create for portfolio optimisation, and the limitations practitioners need to understand, including detectability challenges, evidentiary gaps, and the risk of incorrect conclusions when assessing patent value.


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Key Topics
From Patent Metrics to Market Evidence
Most portfolio reviews rely on indicators such as citations, patent age, and family size. This session explores how AI enables a shift toward evaluating patents based on evidence of actual market adoption, helping IP teams make more informed maintenance and investment decisions.
How AI Maps Claims to Real-World Products
Learn how large language and multimodal models deconstruct patent claims into individual elements and search for supporting evidence across product documentation, technical manuals, source code, teardowns, and other publicly available sources. The discussion will cover how relevance scores are generated and interpreted across a portfolio.
Avoiding the Pitfalls of AI-Powered Patent Assessment
A lack of observable evidence does not necessarily mean a patent is not being practised. This session examines key limitations, including non-detectable claim elements, hallucinated evidence, confidence thresholds, and best practices for ensuring AI-driven insights support, rather than replace, expert decision-making.
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