Case Study: GKN Driveline achieves streamlined patent searching and confident IP protection with PatSnap

GKN Driveline - Customer Case Study

GKN Driveline, a global engineering business with more than 160 manufacturing facilities, service centers and offices in over 50 countries, faced a major challenge in managing the huge volume of patent and technical publications emerging worldwide and finding the “needle in the haystack” needed for reliable patentability assessments. To address this, GKN Driveline adopted PatSnap — using the PatSnap platform (including PatSnap Insights, workspace, name grouping and alert functionality) to support its regional patent managers.

PatSnap delivered integrated patent search, analytics and reporting tools that GKN’s patent team uses daily to run patentability assessments, generate patent landscapes and company/technology reports, and collaborate across regions. As a result, GKN’s patent managers can efficiently sift large data sets, maintain a portfolio of over 100 active patent families, receive targeted alerts on competitor publications, and — in the words of Patent Manager Eric LaMothe — have greater confidence in the likelihood of obtaining strong patent protection thanks to PatSnap.

GKN Driveline

Eric LaMothe

Patent Manager