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While there is an immense amount of publicly available patent documents for any kind of technology, I am wondering how we can use that data in order to evaluate the state of the art of a certain technology, or how can we use patents to map competitors in one market?
For instance, recently there have been many developments in VR/AR technology, such as HoloLens and magic leap. Can a patent professional provide us with relevant information about the advancements in that area?
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Patents are not the best way to figure out the state of the art in VR/AR for two reasons:
1) Patent applications are not made public for 18 months from they were filed. So, any developments in VR/AR in the last 18 months will not show up in publicly available patents.
2) Patents are usually not written in a reader-friendly manner. Even a trained patent professional may have to spend a couple hours reading a patent to understand what it covers. So, reading and understanding all publicly available VR/AR patents will be a very costly exercise.
I would recommend using the Wikipedia page on Augmented Reality as a starting point. The links and resources on the Augmented Reality page are useful for digging deeper into particular areas of Augmented Reality.
If you have an invention and you are wondering whether it has been done before, then a patent professional can do a patent search for your invention and tell you the state of the art as it relates to your invention.
Hope that helps. Let me know if you need more info on Augmented Reality. I worked on several augmented reality inventions back in 2012.
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