# Patent map > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Patent_map > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Patent_map.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_map > Source revision: 1174240093 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Graphical model of patent visualisation}} A '''patent map''' is a graphical model of [patent visualisation](/source/patent_visualisation). This practice "enables companies to identify the patents in a particular technology space, verify the characteristics of these patents, and ... identify the relationships among them, to see if there are any zones of [infringement](/source/patent_infringement)."[https://books.google.com/books?id=aYFErvCfIfUC&dq=patent+mapping&pg=PT371 From Innovation to Cash Flows:Value Creation by Structuring High Technology Alliances, p349] Patent mapping is also referred to as patent landscaping. ==See also== * [Patent analysis](/source/Patent_analysis) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100629032348/http://www.epo.org/patents/patent-information/business/stats/faq.html Patent statistics and patent mapping FAQ] at the [European Patent Office](/source/European_Patent_Office) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110704055718/http://202.106.92.141/shangchuan/zmyj0009.pdf Guide Book for Practical Use of "Patent Map for Each Technology Field"], Invention Research Institute, Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, Japan Patent Office, Asia-Pacific Industrial Property Center, JIII (2000) Category:Management frameworks Map, patent --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Patent map](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_map) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_map?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.