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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Research in Motion - Shares are Declining but Patent Count is Growing
By Jennifer Butler, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services with research assistance by Larry Cady Shares of Canadian based Research in Motion plunged on Friday June 29 after…
Ranking the Top US Patent Law Firms
The yin yang between patent quantity and quality has long been an issue among innovative businesses. It has yet to be resolved. It is not a simple matter of those…
Facebook & Yahoo - Using KMX to Compare Patent Portfolios
Facebook is planning an IPO next month. It will be one of the largest IPO’s in history. In their February 1, 2012 S-1 filing, Facebook noted that their…
Top University US Patent Portfolios
One of the most common uses of IFI CLAIMS Patent Intelligence and Technology (PITR) is to provide quick reports outlining patent portfolios. These snapshots provide a…
The Number of Claims and the Grant Lag
Why does it take so long to get a patent? The time lag between when a patent application is filed and when the patent is granted currently averages 33.7 months or…
California leads the nation in innovation, or does it?
On January 10, 2012 IFI CLAIMS Patent Services released its ranking of top global companies based on US utility patents in 2011. Our IFI analysts work closely…
PITR for Patent Trends - KMX for Deep Insight
On January 10, IFI released its annual Top 50 Patent rankings for 2011. This report is a summary of information available through IFI’s Patent Information &…
Linguamatics and Fairview announce collaboration for high performance text mining of patent data
Linguamatics, a leader in enterprise text mining, today announced that it has agreed to license patent content from Fairview Research's Alexandria database.
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