Understand your competitors' R&D from their patents

1. Describe the task

Tracking a competitor's filings one at a time tells you what they filed, not what they're building toward. Reading fifty patents by hand to find the pattern takes longer than most scouts have for one competitor.

Hand the reading to Prism. Name the competitor and the technology area. Prism pulls their recent filings from the signals pool, groups them into strategic focus areas, and states where those themes create risk or opportunity for you.

2. Give context

Required inputs

• The competitor's name and a technology area, both stated in the prompt, to scope the search.
• A time window, so the clusters reflect current investment rather than a decade of filings.

3. What ITONICS AI creates

Highest risk: quantum dot materials. A 2025 acquisition of 53 patents from Merck signals a move toward cadmium-free, self-emissive QD displays that would eventually compete at the professional tier, directly overlapping your NextGen Colour Volume initiative.

Recommended next step: run a freedom-to-operate review on the acquired quantum dot patents before your next filing cycle.