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IFI CLAIMS Announces 2015 Top 50 German Patent Recipients
GM, Siemens and Audi Lead List Dominated by Automotive Industry.
2015 IFI CLAIMS German Patent Trends
2015 IFI CLAIMS German Patent Trends Assignees: In Germany, the Top 50 is dominated by automobile and auto parts manufacturers. This compares to the…
The USPTO’s PTAB is very busy - and why it matters
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) was formed as part of the December 2014 America Invents Act (AIA). The PTAB makes decisions on patentability after the…
2014 U.S. Patent Trends & Insights
IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, the leading producer of global patent databases, analytic solutions and innovative web services, has compiled the following facts from its…
IFI CLAIMS Announces 2014 Top U.S. Patent Recipients
U.S. Companies See Major Gains Including Record Best for #1 IBM; #8 Google's Induction into Top 10 in Close Pursuit of #7 Qualcomm and Only 263 Patents Shy of #5…
Hovering over the Drone Patent Landscape
By Serguei Carrascosa and Enric Escorsa from IALE Tecnologia As it occurs with many disruptive technologies, drones (technically known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles…
The IP Landscape for Wearables with Augmented Reality
Elicet Cruz PhD., IALE Tecnologia, S.L. You probably know Google Glass; who doesn’t… It is Google’s flagship product expected to become massive in the market…
CLAIMS Direct 2.0 - Detailed Examples of Value Added Content
IFI CLAIMS has recently released CLAIMS Direct 2.0 - a major upgrade to its pioneering patent web service. CLAIMS Direct 2.0 combines IFI's global patent database…
Sony Corporation Patents: 2010-2013
Sony has a long history of innovation, and their patenting activity reflects this. Sony is consistently in the IFI CLAIMS Patent Rankings’ Top 50. For 2013,…
2013 U.S. Patent Trends & Insights
IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, the leading producer of global patent databases, analytic solutions and innovative web services, has compiled the following facts from its…
IFI CLAIMS Announces Top U.S. Patent Assignees of 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tom Kivett Kivett & Company Communications (212) 727-2935 tkivett@kivettandco.com IBM on Top Again; Qualcomm Breaks into Top…
3D Printing—The Patent Landscape
By Elicet Cruz PhD., S. L. from IALE Tecnologia 3D Printing is currently a much discussed topic. This blog post examines the patent landscape of this important…
IFI's U.S. Patent Collection Available on STN in One Database
IFI CLAIMS®Patent Services, a leading producer of global patent databases, analytic solutions and innovative web services, and STN®, a leading online database…
Patents on Aging
By: Enric Escorsa O’Callaghan, IALE Tecnologia, S.L. The world’s population is rapidly aging - according to the World Health Organization (WHO), in almost…
Innovation in Medical Devices: Looking at the IP Landscape for Surgical Devices
By Katia Cueto and Enric Escorsa, Iale Technologia, SL The medical devices industry has experienced a significant upswing in recent years, and is considered (by…
Tony Trippe of Patinformatics Describes Patent Classification
Tony Trippe of Patinformatics LLC is writing an excellent series of technical blog posts discussing patent clustering, visualization and especially classification.
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Analyzing Graphene Patents
By: Elicet Cruz PhD., Iale Tecnologia S.L. What is Graphene? Graphene is a material which through its extraordinary properties has attracted the attention of both…
IFI CLAIMS Announces Top U.S. Patent Assignees of 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tom Kivett Kivett & Company Communications (212) 727-2935 tkivett@kivettandco.com IFI Announces Top U.S. Patent Assignees of…
2012 U.S. Patent Trends & Insights
MADISON, Conn., Jan. 10, 2013 — IFI CLAIMS® Patent Services, the leading producer of global patent databases, analytic solutions and innovative web services, has…
IFI CLAIMS Patent Services Licenses Global Patent Data to Gridlogics
IFI CLAIMS licenses the CLAIMS® Global patent database to Gridlogics, an India-based intellectual properties solutions provider with customers all over the world. …
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) in IFI CLAIMS Direct
The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) is a new patent classification system developed jointly by the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) and…
Fractus vs Samsung: Patents on fractal antennas for wireless devices
Fractus is a Spanish fractal antenna manufacturer, spin off from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), that licenses its technology to leading…
IFI CLAIMS Patent Services Newsletter – Volume 4, Fall 2012
Newsletter – Volume 4, Fall 2012 Custom Reporting | Product News | Featured Partner - Surechem | Highlights from our Blog IFI CLAIMS provides Custom…
FUJI FILM: from Films to Cosmetics - Tracking a successful case of diversification with IFI CLAIMS and KMX
Solar Energy Patents in China - Using IFI CLAIMS Direct to Search Chinese Patent Translations
IFI CLAIMS provides a large collection of Chinese patent data through its CLAIMS Direct web service. We have 5,988,582 Chinese patent translations with English…
Video: PITR - The Easy To Use Patent Dashboard
This four minute video demonstrates the ease of use and depth of data available in PITR - The Patent Intelligence and Technology Report…
IFI CLAIMS Patent Services Newsletter: Volume 3, August 2012
IFI CLAIMS Newsletter: Volume 3, August 2012 Message from the CEO – CLAIMS Direct Reindex – CLAIMS Classic update – PITR updates – BLOG Highlights…
Repsol, YPF and the pursuit of unconventional oil
By Enric Escorsa, Iale Tecnología In April this year, Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández, announced her decision to seize control over Yacimientos…
Classifying Newly Released Cloud Computing Patents Using KMX
Last week, I showed how KMX can classify a large numbers of patents. I looked at 3,961 patents published before June 23, 2012 using the search term “cloud…
Using KMX to Classify the "Cloud Computing" Patent Landscape
What is “cloud computing”? What is “cloud computing”? Is it a technology, a business model, industry hype? In the popular press, one can easily find many…
