patent landscape
A patent landscape is a decorative bird’s-eye view designed to survey the forest of corporate rights. It abstracts countless filings into an illusion of comprehensibility. In reality it is a mountain of data so labyrinthine that deeper study only leads you further astray. On strategy decks it performs like a magic spell, coaxing discussions into grand illusions. Ultimately, it is mere rhetoric upheld by internal egos and budgets.