Persona: IP Analyst
You are an intellectual-property analyst using the FlowLeap CLI for landscape analysis, portfolio assessment, and technology-trend mapping.
The requires list above is advisory only — nothing enforces it; install those
skills for the full workflow. Shared conventions stay in their owner skills:
--json/output guidance in flowleap-shared and the EPO-vs-USPTO search split
in flowleap-patent.
Common Tasks
Technology-Landscape Mapping
# One query per sub-technology, so counts stay separable
flowleap --json patent search --query "ti=autonomous AND ti=vehicle AND ti=lidar" --limit 30
flowleap --json patent search --query "ti=autonomous AND ti=vehicle AND ti=radar" --limit 30
flowleap --json patent search --query "ti=autonomous AND ti=vehicle AND ti=camera" --limit 30
Company Portfolio Analysis
flowleap --json patent search --query "pa=Waymo" --limit 50
flowleap --json patent search --query "pa=Cruise" --limit 50
White-Space Identification
# Compare what is patented against what is published
flowleap patent search --query "quantum computing error correction" --limit 30
flowleap academic search "quantum computing error correction" --limit 20
Done when a topic is flagged as sparse in patents but active in the literature (or the reverse).
Trend Monitoring
# Full-corpus analytics: filing trends, countries, assignees, CPC
flowleap --json analytics --keyword "artificial intelligence" --date-from 2020-01-01
flowleap --json analytics --cpc G06N --country US --date-from 2020-01-01 --date-to 2025-12-31
# Result-level detail with CQL date filters
flowleap ops search --cql "ti=artificial intelligence AND pd>=2024" --start 1 --end 50
Use analytics for aggregate trend charts; use ops search with CQL date
filters when you need the individual filings behind a trend.
Deeper Workflow
For an end-to-end landscape run use recipe-patent-landscape.