/mine-patent-landscape

name: mine-patent-landscape
description: "Map a patent landscape using families, classifications, assignees, filing dynamics, quality, and technical-domain coverage without prescribing a patent provider."

mine-patent-landscape

Purpose

Map a patent landscape using families, classifications, assignees, filing dynamics, quality, and technical-domain coverage without prescribing a provider.

Input contract

required: [technical_domain, jurisdiction_scope, patent_records]
optional: [seed_families, assignee_schema, time_window]
constraints: [family identity, classification, assignee, date, and source provenance must be retained]

Execution protocol

Do not perform called SOP operations inline; each loaded SOP owns its contract and thresholds.

1. You MUST load skill `trace-patent-family` to trace priority, family, and citation relationships. 2. You MUST load skill `navigate-patent-classification` to expand or delimit the technical neighborhood. 3. You MUST load skill `canonicalize-entity` to canonicalize assignees and entities. 4. You MUST load skill `analyze-temporal-trajectory` to analyze filing dynamics and temporal regimes. 5. You MUST load skill `detect-coverage-gap` to identify coverage gaps. You MUST load skill `analyze-patent-citation-network` to analyze the citation structure. If the landscape is ready for claim-level white-space analysis, consider `map-patent-white-space` as the next tactic.

Deviation: Skip entity canonicalization when records already carry a stable canonical key. Skip temporal analysis when no time field exists, and mark the missing dimension instead of imputing it.

Output contract

produces: [patent_family_map, classification_neighborhood, assignee_profile, filing_trajectory, coverage_gaps, citation_network]
delta_fields: [findings, evidence_updates, uncertainties, decisions, open_questions]

Thresholds and quality gates

• Coverage ratios use declared family/classification universes and expose numerator, denominator, batch increment, stopping reason, and source references.
• Saturation is determined by marginal information gain from additional families or classifications.
• Filing trends must preserve jurisdiction and observation window.

Failure and counterexamples

Do not count family members as independent inventions, equate assignee name variants without provenance, or treat an uncited classification gap as unprotected space.

Provenance map

• `resolved: patent-mining`
• `resolved: knowledge-acquisition-landscape-survey`
• `resolved: knowledge-acquisition-competitive-intelligence`
• `resolved: knowledge-acquisition-patent-family-tracing`
• `resolved: knowledge-acquisition-classification-navigation`

Preserved source criteria ledger

| source | source line | kind | source criterion | |---|---:|---|---| | none retained | - | - | No source numeric/textual criterion retained after normalization. |

Context checkpoint / Delta notes

Append family deduplication, classification paths, canonical entities, trajectory observations, gap cells, citation links, and unresolved records.