Problem & Context:

An European Food & Beverage company was interested in understanding current technologies and innovation space for packaging techniques for baked food products.

SciTech Patent Art Approach & Deliverables:
  • A team of Food technologists and packaging engineers at SciTech Patent Art were assigned the job. The team conducted a landscape search pertaining to packaging techniques for baked food products with special focus on currently available products, published papers and patents in this area. SPA implemented following steps –
  • Carried out comprehensive patent searches using multiple patent databases, and categorized the relevant patents into various meaningful technology categories like package type and packaging material.
  • Conducted searches for published papers and products using SPA’s Deep Web search technique
  • The team analyzed the findings from the above searches and presented a technology trends report based on current packaging techniques for baked food products, emerging players in this space, types of packaging and packaging materials.

The project was completed in four weeks and costed $12,000

Turnaround Time:
  • 4 weeks
Cost:
  • $ 12,000