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PATENT ANALYSIS: PATENT FILE WRAPPERS AS A TOOL FOR COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
Patent Analysis: Patent File Wrappers as a Tool for Competitive Intelligence What is a patent file wrapper? Why is a file wrapper an important source for gathering information to better understand technology, products, and markets? A step-by-step guide on how to...
PatentCAM – Frequently Asked Questions
PatentCAM - Answers to our most Frequently Asked Questions Our recent webinar, Beyond the spreadsheet - Powerful tools to manage patent information and scientific literature elicited a lot of interest and questions related to our PatentCAM software platform. Over the...
The future of Information Management – Inter-disciplinary knowledge management + software tools
The future of information management - How Inter-disciplinary knowledge management with the right software tools will maximize enterprise innovation. The direction patent research is heading in is a topic on the minds of most information professionals. Or at least it...
Beyond the spreadsheet – Powerful tools to manage patents and non-patent literature
IP Checkups recently produced a webinar focused on using our IP management software tool, PatentCAM to manage patents and non-patent literature. The webinar was presented by Matthew Rappaport and Bruce Resnick of IP Checkups. It was hosted by Chemical and Engineering...
Corporate Legal Operations – Implementing IP best practices to drive your organization
Since 2004, IP Checkups has worked with dozens of corporate IP departments. A few are very sophisticated and well-organized, implementing best practices around process, software and policies to support information sharing, while many seem to be stuck in a reactive...
Enhance Your 5G Competitive Intelligence: Mapping 5G SEPs to the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) scheme
To enhance your 5G competitive intelligence, we build on our recent blog post, which examined use cases of our free to use 5G PatentEdge dashboard, we’ve taken another look at the intersection of self-declared 5G Standards Essential Patents (SEPs) and the Cooperative...
Mapping 5G SEPs to the CPC – Wireless Resource Allocation
Mapping 5G Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) to the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) code for Wireless Resource Allocation: Twice each year, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) publishes a Special Report: Intellectual Property Rights...
Risks and Benefits of Patent Searching
There has been a long-standing debate between the risks and benefits of patent searching. For most R&D, marketing, and business managers, the benefits of searching patent information are unquestioned. However, legal counsel (including patent attorneys) often...
Ignorance isn’t always bliss. Using willful blindness as a policy for patent searching could backfire on large corporations.
Creating a policy that encourages employees to search for and analyze patent information related to new products and innovations makes good business sense but is often rejected by attorneys fearing charges of willful infringement. In fact, many companies, especially...
Tracking patents in the Animal Health Market — How M&A Impacts Intellectual property
The history of the animal health industry presents significant challenges when tracking patent ownership and innovation activity. Not only does one have to navigate the many large acquisitions that have been made in this space, there are also the rights to patents...
Gaming Companies Battle It Out Over Technology, Marketing, and Intellectual Property
This past March, Google made headlines around its new cloud-based, gaming platform, Stadia. The subscription streaming service (think Netflix for video games), will be accessible on PC’s, phones, tablets, and TV’s, eliminating the need for gamers to purchase yet...
Looking Under the Hood – The Automotive Patent Landscape
With the growing interest in electric transportation, it can seem like the auto industry has been taken over by a new breed of start-ups — companies and technologies that didn’t even exist before the beginning of this decade. But according to recent patent filings,...
Major League Patent Analysis
Identifying, recruiting, and signing a professional athlete is an exhaustive process for any sports franchise. Weighing the accolades versus the injuries. Home record versus away. ERAs, SOGs, QBRs, FG%s. Even deep dive background checks into the athletes’ families....
Dyson Innovates: The Electric Car
Dyson patent applications offer hints to its electric car designs AND its solid state batteries. A recent Wired Magazine article broke news of 3 published Dyson patent applications related to its electric car plans. These include WO2019086845A1, WO2019086847A1, and...
Patent Landscape Analysis Part 2 – How to perform a patent landscape analysis in 5 key steps
How to perform a patent landscape analysis in 5 key steps Introduction: Patent filings are occurring at an unprecedented scale. In 2016 approximately 3.1 million patent applications were filed worldwide (8% higher than 2015 statistics) — that’s over 8000...
BREAKING DOWN THE PATENT LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS
In Part 1 of Patent Landscape Analysis — An Overview, we describe what a patent landscape is, and why it’s so critical to all competitive innovation work. i.e., reduce redundant search, accelerate time to commercialization and protect teams from defensive litigation....
About the America Invents Act (AIA)
The America Invents Act (AIA) includes a broad array of reforms to the patent system. These changes give third parties the unprecedented right to challenge patent applications and grants through pre-issuance submissions, inter partes review, and post grant review....
Toyota’s Royalty Free Patents Result in New Revenue From Fuel Cell Equipment Sales and Know-How
Back in 2015, Toyota announced it would grant royalty free access to 5,680 fuel cell vehicle (FCV) technology patents through 2020. Earlier this month, Toyota made an announcement to offer royalty free access to 24,000 of its hybrid vehicle patents. This...
Why law firms are holding out on software solutions
At IP Checkups, we developed PatentCAM™, a patent management software tool to spur innovation among R&D, legal and business groups. While many R&D teams have embraced the software, the legal groups, in-house and outside counsel, have been tougher nuts...
Legal software as a service has been around since the early 1990s: Law Firms are finally starting to embrace it.
Back in 1993, Irving Rappaport and his business partner, Kevin Rivette founded Smart Patents. The company was one of the early legal software firms. Smart Patents’ goal was to create a “Digital Patent” and transition patent attorneys from working on paper to working...
Patent Landscape Analysis: An Overview
Patent Landscape Analysis: An Overview. What is Patent Landscape Analysis & Why is it Important? It is believed that 80% of published science and technology information contained in patents is not published anywhere else. There are literally tens of millions of...
Patent Analysis and Market Research Reports
Patent Analysis & Market Research Reports IP Checkups offers patent analysis and market reports that enable R&D, marketing, business development, and corporate decision-makers to focus on analyzing actionable information rather than spending time searching for...
Patent Tracking Provides Unique Insights into Competitor Pipelines
IP Checkups custom patent monitoring and curation service supports Big Pharma Co’s successful launch of multi-billion dollar drug. In an effort to develop best-in-class new chemical entities, in 2007, one of the world’s largest biopharma companies (~ $20 Billion...
Ford’s Battery Patent Portfolio Grows in Q2 2015
Ford's Battery Patent Portfolio is Growing. Ford Motors recently opened its electric vehicle patent portfolio to competitors. As for batteries, Ford's battery patents related to battery modules grew by 65% from the first to the second quarter in 2015. This was a 438%...
State of US Battery IP 2014 (patent activity and trends): Calcharge Webinar
In June of 2015, IP Checkups presented a webinar to CalCharge members called which highlighted recent patent activity in Advanced battery technology. IP Checkups presented the latest on trending areas for innovation, new entrants, leading innovators, non-practicing...
Johnson Controls Battery Cell Patents Surge by 2150% in Q1 2015
In Q1 2015, Johnson Controls battery cell patents skyrocketed in Q! 2015. The company published an impressive number of patent applications - 45 to be exact! Every quarter, IP Checkups compiles statistics from the ABC PatentEdge - An online compendium of more than...
Patent Search-Attorney, Inventor, Search firm?
Patent Search-Attorney, Inventor, Search firm? Recently, Entrepreneur.com published a short article on how to conduct a patent search. The author presented two options for inventors and innovators to “make sure your brilliant invention doesn’t already exist”. In the...
Following Tesla, Toyota’s Fuel Cell Patents Are Now Open Source
At the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Toyota announced it would grant access to 5,680 fuel cell vehicle (FCV) technology patents. This idea of offering a royalty free patent license to competitors is novel, however it is not the first time we’re seeing an auto...
Toyota Offers Royalty Free Licenses To Its Hydrogen Fuel Cell Patents
Toyota announced it would offer royalty free licenses to its hydrogen fuel cell patents to companies manufacturing and selling fuel cell vehicles until 2020. By sharing its Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) patent portfolio, equivalent to 20 years of research and development,...
Following Tesla, Toyota Releases Patents: Fuel Cell Technology
At the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Toyota announced it would grant access to 5,680 fuel cell vehicle (FCV) technology patents. This idea of offering a royalty free patent license to competitors is novel, however it is not the first time we’re seeing an auto...
LG Chem & Samsung Surpass Panasonic as Leaders in Graphite Anode Patenting
BERKELEY, CA (November 18, 2014) – For the past 30 years, Panasonic has dominated the graphite anode patent landscape. Traditionally, LG Chem and Samsung have been among the top five graphite anode patent filers but have trailed behind Panasonic; however, within the...
Competitors in Graphite Anodes: Sample Report Data
IP Checkups offers several types of reports. The Competitor Innovation report provides insight into specific companies' patent activity. Below is a sample report that displays recent patent activity from Samsung, LG Chem, Kureha, Sumitomo, and Panasonic in graphite...
Advanced Battery Technology: Patent Update Report 2013-2014
Curious about recent advanced battery patent activity? Using patent data from ABC PatentEdge, we have developed The Advanced Battery Technology: Patent Update Report, which provides an up-to-date overview of worldwide patent activity in the battery industry through...
Devices Powered by Sound – The Next Big Mobile Device Innovation
As consumers anxiously await the release of Apple’s iPhone 6, innovators in the battery industry continue to develop new technologies for the next generation of smartphones. Two teams of scientists, from Nokia and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), are working...
Advanced Battery Technology: Patent Update – Detailed Patents
Top Companies The markets and materials sectors were key areas in battery innovation for the top patent filing companies between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014. Below are a handful of patents assigned to the top companies. For complete access to all patents assigned...
State of Battery IP: Top Companies in Separators
Top Companies: Separators More than 400 U.S. patent applications related to separators published between July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014. Olefins and plastics were the primary focus of these companies’ innovation, though LG Chem also appears to have a strong interest...
State of Battery IP: Top Companies in Electrolytes
Top Companies: Electrolytes More than 500 electrolyte-related U.S. patent applications published between July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014. Toyota dominated patenting in solid electrolytes, while Samsung and LG Chem were primarily concerned with carbonates and...
State of Battery IP: Top Companies in Electrodes
Top Companies: Electrodes More than 1500 U.S. patent applications related to electrodes published between July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014. Within the past year, Samsung and LG Chem have been battling it out for the title of most prolific patent filer in the...
Stretchable Batteries
Article by Dr. Kathryn Paisner, PhD Director of Research, Analytics, and Business Development Wearable electronics have been ballyhooed by many as the next truly revolutionary “smart technology.” Integrated into clothing, accessories, and other personal devices, these...
IP Checkups’ Advanced Battery Partners
IP Checkups is proud to be working with both NAATBatt and CalCharge to accelerate the development and adoption of advanced energy storage technologies. IP Checkups developed the ABC PatentEdge™ with input from experienced battery technology experts,...
Top New Entrants in Graphite Anodes: Sample Report Data
“New Entrants” are companies that have started filing patents related to graphite anode technology for the first time between July 2009 – June 2014. The New Entrants sample report was developed using data from the ABC PatentEdge database, which houses more than...
New! Advanced Battery Blog
BERKELEY, CA (July 16, 2014) – We are excited to announce the launch of our Advanced Battery & Capacitor (ABC) PatentEdge Blog, a place where IP Checkups’ battery patent experts will post analyses on advanced battery companies, technologies and innovation trends. ...
Advanced Battery & Capacitor PatentEdge Launches
On January 21, 2014, IP Checkups announced the latest addition to its suite of PatentEdge solutions, the Advanced Battery & Capacitor (ABC) PatentEdge™, which focuses specifically on the advanced battery and capacitor industries. The ABC PatentEdge is the...
Top Companies in Graphite Anodes: Sample Report Data
The Top Companies sample report was developed using data from the ABC PatentEdge database, which houses more than 200,000 worldwide battery-related patents. We have added more than 11,000 patents to the ABC PatentEdge, from worldwide patent authorities in 2014 alone....