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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…
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…
IFI Announces Top Patent Law Firms By 2011 U.S. Patent Grants
IFI CLAIMS®Patent Services, the leading producer of global patent databases, analytic solutions and innovative web services, today announced the top-50 patent law…
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…
IFI CLAIMS Newsletter: Volume 2, May 2012
IFI CLAIMS Newsletter Number 2 -- May 2012 Message from CEO after returning from PIUG -- Data Update on CLAIMS Global -- Featured Partner -- Webinars and Blogs
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…
IFI CLAIMS Newsletter: Volume 1, April 2012
IFI CLAIMS Webinars | Message from the CEO | IFI CLAIMS Blogs | IFI CLAIMS at PIUG Thanks to everyone who joined our "KMX for Portfolio Analysis"…
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…
