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Keep Track of Semiconductor Patent Leaders with IFI’s Interactive Ranking Tool
We posted a blog in January highlighting some of the things you can do with our Top 1000 Interactive Ranking Tool. In addition to discovering trends and finding competitors, the tool shows the most current counts of patent grants for the year-to-date.
Let’s highlight one particular company that has seen a lot of growth over the past few years, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC). In…
Using Patents as an Alternative Data Source for Investing
Linking patent data to financial and other data sources provides analysts with unique metrics for decision making. On a tactical level, it’s possible to figure out how effective a company’s R&D spend is by linking it to patent grants. When linked to SIC codes, this can be done at an industry level to uncover broader patterns. On a strategic level, tracking patent activity sheds light on technology and geography…
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IFI Winter 2018 Newsletter
US patent grants drop slightly in 2018; Chinese companies continue to grow their share
Last month we released our annual patent rankings and trends reports which revealed a 3.5% decrease in granted patents in 2018 from 2017. Leading the way as top assignee is IBM for the 26th year in a row earning 9,100 patents, a slight gain from 2017. New this year, we produced an ultimate ownership report which ranks parent companies by their total number of active patents. Sa…
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Ourchem Selects IFI to Improve Patent Data Quality for their Big Data Platforms
NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 19, 2019 — IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, provider of a leading global patent data platform, today announces that Guangzhou Ourchem Information Consulting Co. has selected IFI’s CLAIMS Direct to power their intellectual property big data center.
“IFI offers high-quality patent data processing and services capabilities. The global information loaded into the Ourchem Big…
IFI CLAIMS Announces Fastest Growing Technologies Based on Patent Growth
Genomics Testing Leads List Including Medical Imaging, Machine Learning, Healthcare Sensing, Warehouse Storage & Memory Sharing
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 27, 2019 — IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, provider of a leading global patent data platform, today released an analysis of the 10 fastest growing technologies as determined by patent application growth in 2018. IFI found that Genomics Testing…