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Legal software as a service has been around since the early 1990s: Law Firms are finally starting to embrace it.

On June 29, 2017

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 on an electronic format. According to Irving Rappaport, co-founder and managing director […]

On March 20, 2017

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 published patents and patent application references available for review by the public. This overwhelming treasure trove of information can […]

On December 22, 2016

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 and reviewing data, sorting data into categories, and collating reports. IP Checkups’ patent analysis and market reports include patent […]

On December 21, 2016

Patent Filings Corporations, Universities and Governments recognize the increasing importance of filing patents to protect their most valuable assets. As the rate of patent filing increases, so does the importance of understanding the competitive landscape. Companies are filing patents at record-breaking rates in order to protect their most valuable innovations from competitors. Worldwide, more than […]

On December 20, 2016

Driven by innovation and invention, enterprises both large and small are generating remarkable amounts of intellectual assets in the form of patents. In today’s competitive markets, effectively managing patent assets is essential for the successful enterprise. Tangibles vs Intangibles The physical and hard assets that drove growth and production in the industrial business world two […]

On December 9, 2016

The America Invents Act 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. Now, more than ever, patent holders need to engage in proactive competitive patent search and monitoring to: […]

On June 15, 2016

The world’s top intellectual property value creators of 2015 were named in IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists. The IAM Strategy 300 lists individuals that possess world class skills in the development and roll-out of strategies that maximize the value of patent, copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights. IP Checkups’ Founders, Irving and Matthew […]

On September 1, 2015

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 market cap) turned to IP Checkups (IPC), a pioneer in patent research and analytics, to develop a system […]

On August 24, 2015

The latest chapter in an ongoing collaboration between Kathryn Paisner, IP Checkups’ Director of Research & Business Development, and Brady Huggett, Nature Biotechnology‘s business editor, is now available via the Nature website, or by clicking here. This year’s data page approaches researcher rankings from a new angle. Instead of assessing researchers’ patenting efforts at their current institutions, we examined […]

On June 15, 2015

On May 5, 2015

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 industry, this is called a patentability search. Protecting your unique and potentially lucrative idea from copycats and imitations that will cheapen the value […]

On December 19, 2014

BERKELEY, CA (December 19, 2014) – Join IP Checkups at the NAATBatt 2015 Annual Meeting & Conference – a “must attend” premier business development event for professionals in the electrochemical energy storage supply chain industry. The NAATBatt Annual Meeting & Conference is the place to understand where the business of electrochemical energy storage is going and where […]

On November 18, 2014

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 past five years, these two competitors outpaced Panasonic’s graphite anode patent application activity. […]

On April 22, 2014

CleanTech PatentEdge™ 2013 Annual Report Released in the 1st quarter of 2014, this annual update provides a high-level overview of some of the key players and patenting trends from 2013. With a sector focus on renewable energy, water, energy efficiency, energy storage, green manufacturing, agriculture and more, the data comes from IP Checkups’ CleanTech PatentEdge […]

On April 22, 2013

LED Technology Trends: Material Science & Phosphor Innovations Drawing on data from IP Checkups’ LED PatentEdge™ solution, the LED Technology Trends report offers insights into patent and technology research and development activity by top companies and top inventors in materials and phosphor innovations for Light Emitting Diodes. The report is focused on broad trends comparing […]

On December 22, 2012

What is a Non-Practicing Entity (NPE)? NPEs are patent owners that do not make products. Instead, most NPEs derive their revenue from licensing or enforcing patents. The types of NPEs can vary, ranging from one-person inventor trusts, to academic institution and large patent aggregators. In litigation, NPEs generally have an advantage over operating companies (companies […]

On December 22, 2012

The NPE Tracker — Bringing Transparency to the Patent Marketplace The rise of non-practicing entities (NPEs) brings new challenges for small and large companies, investors, and startups alike. Consistent with IP Checkups’ mission to illuminate competitive patent landscapes in order to align your IP strategy with business objectives, we are developing an online database of […]

On December 21, 2012

A partial list of non-practicing entities featured in the NPE Tracker: Patent Assertion Entities Acacia Technologies Conversant Intellectual Property Management (Mosaid) Intellectual Ventures Interdigital IPG Healthcare/ Electronics Rambus Round Rock Research LLC Rockstar Consortium LLC Tessera Technologies Inc. Walker Digital LLC Wi-Lan Defensive Patent Aggregators RPX Allied Security Trust Academic/ Research Entities Commonwealth Scientific and […]

On December 12, 2012

When IP Checkups launched Case IV Thicket last October, I had the fortune soon thereafter of speaking with Aaron Greenspan, founder of Plainsite, about our project. Plainsite is an online legal database dedicated to bringing transparency to the legal system. Mr. Greenspan had read about our project to uncover Intellectual Ventures, and became excited about […]

On December 3, 2012

BERKELEY, Calif., December 03, 2012 – IP Checkups, a boutique patent analytics firm, launched Case IV Thicket last month, an Indiegogo crowdfunded project designed to expose Intellectual Ventures’ hidden patent portfolio and make it freely available to the public. Funding for the project closed last week at $13,580 – short of the $80,000 fundraising goal. Despite this setback, […]

On November 2, 2012

If you haven’t heard – we at IP Checkups have launched a crowdfunded Indiegogo project to reveal Intellectual Ventures patent portfolio to the public. Check out our campaign site here: www.indiegogo.com/iv-thicket During our fundraising, many backers have asked us for examples of our research methodology and process. Below is a sample of the initial patent […]

On October 15, 2012

[vimeo clip_id=”51175418″ title=”1″ byline=”0″ portrait=”0″] BERKELEY, Calif., October 15, 2012—IP Checkups, Inc., a boutique patent analytics firm, today announced the launch of Case IV Thicket, an Indiegogo crowdfunded project designed to expose Intellectual Ventures’ hidden patent portfolio and make it freely available to the public. IP Checkups plans to release a free, online database of patents […]

On September 12, 2012

BERKELEY, CA (September 12, 2012) — IP Checkups, a boutique patent analytics firm, today announced the launch of CleanTech PatentEdge, the only comprehensive online patent research database dedicated to addressing cleantech industry patent developments. The database filters more than 1.5 million worldwide patents in more than 150 cleantech market sectors and includes technologies as diverse as, but […]

On August 14, 2012

Heralded as a “revolutionary material” with “outstanding physical properties,” graphene emerged at the forefront of materials science in 2004, when researchers at the University of Manchester used Scotch tape to peel this single layer of interconnected carbon atoms from a graphite flake. The simplicity and affordability of the “Scotch tape method” sparked an immense amount of scientific interest, and graphene […]

On August 14, 2012

Innovation drives economic growth in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Despite this truth, startups, university spinoffs and SMEs often have trouble capitalizing on their innovations through intellectual property. When faced with massive budget restraints and constantly-shifting market pressures, startups often relegate IP asset management to the back seat. On September 26, 2012 IP Checkups […]

On December 19, 2011

Due diligence is a key concept in the business world. Before buying a new company or investing in a new product, companies spend millions of dollars reviewing financial statements, accounting methods, and market reports to ensure that their investments have no hidden risks. In contrast, many companies turn a blind eye to their competitors’ patents […]

On December 5, 2011

The case filed by Garnet Digital last week provides some interesting insight into joining multiple defendants in the same lawsuit.

On September 14, 2011

Greentech Media has summarized a recent CleanTech IP Panel, which Matthew Rappaport participated for the Licensing Executives Society – Silicon Valley Meeting. Greentech IP Trends: Risks and Opportunities

On September 4, 2011

IP Checkups, Inc., a boutique patent analytics firm, announced today that Irving Rappaport and Matthew Rappaport were named among the world’s leading intellectual property (IP) strategists, according to the recently published IAM Strategy 250: the World’s Leading IP Strategists. IP Checkups, Inc., a boutique patent analytics firm, announced today that Irving Rappaport and Matthew Rappaport […]

On July 22, 2011

Concentrated Solar Thermal: Linear Fresnel Technology – Ausra Patent Portfolio Overview This patent portfolio overview offers a patent-centric analysis of Ausra’s technological developments. The report identifies Ausra’s patents, categorizes its portfolio into technology areas and provides interpreted summaries of the claims contained in each of Ausra’s fundamental patents and patent applications written in plain English. […]

On June 11, 2011

Patenting Trends at Ivy League Universities This report provides a high-level view of the patent filing activity of the 8 Ivy League Universities (Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University). The high-level overview compares the patent issuance rates at the United States Patent […]

On November 22, 2010

Grid-Scale Concentrated Solar Thermal: Thermal Energy Storage Technologies This market research and patent landscape report provides a high-level overview of thermal energy storage technologies used for grid scale concentrated solar thermal (CST) through June 30, 2009. The report discusses the key technologies, market dynamics, key players, inventors and patent holdings relevant to thermal energy storage […]

On December 22, 2009

IP Organizational Structure Considering that patent licensing now accounts for hundreds of billions of dollars per year and the average cost of patent litigation of a single patent is more than $3,000,000 per side, enterprises that effectively manage their patent assets will stay far ahead of those that don’t. The traditional approach for managing innovation […]

Resources

Legal software as a service has been around since the early 1990s: Law Firms are finally starting to embrace it.

Patent Landscape Analysis – An Overview

Patent and Market Research Reports

Increasing Number of Patent Filings

Increasing value of intangible assets vs. tangible assets

About the America Invents Act (AIA)

IP Checkups Founders Named Top Intellectual Property Value Creators in 2016 IAM Strategy 300

Patent Tracking Provides Unique Insights into Competitor Pipelines

Biotechnology Research: Top 20 researchers of 2014

IP Checkups Founders Named Top Intellectual Property Value Creators in 2015 IAM Strategy 300

Patent Attorney, Patent Search, or Strategic Patent Resource?

Join IP Checkups at the NAATBatt 2015 Annual Meeting & Conference: Energy Storage – Electrifying the Future

LG Chem & Samsung Surpass Panasonic as Leaders in Graphite Anode Patenting

CleanTech PatentEdge 2013 Annual Report – Overview

Light Emitting Diode Technology Trends 2009-2012

Non-practicing entity (NPE) FAQ

Non Practicing Entities, The NPE Tracker

Non Practicing Entities Listed in the NPE Tracker

A List of 2000+ Potential Intellectual Ventures Shell Companies – Courtesy of Plainsite

Press Release: In Wake of Case IV Thicket, IP Checkups Announces Plans to Crowdsource Public Non-Practicing Entity (NPE) Tracker

How do you unravel Intellectual Ventures?

IP Checkups to Publish Intellectual Ventures’ Hidden Patent Portfolio

Press Release: IP Checkups Launches CleanTech PatentEdge, the First Online Cleantech Patent Database

Recent Trends in Graphene Innovation

Patents for Startups: Opportunity, Necessity or Nuisance? An IP Checkups/ IPfolio Presentation.

Use Patent Due Diligence to Lower Your Patent Litigation Risks

Garnet Digital v. Apple – New Joinder Reasoning

Cleantech IP Panel Summary

IP Checkups Named World’s Leading IP Strategists

Concentrated Solar Thermal – Linear Fresnel Portfolio Overview

Patenting Trends at Ivy League Universities – 2001- 2010

Patent Landscape Overview – Grid-Scale Concentrated Solar Thermal – Thermal Energy Storage Technologies

Intellectual Property Management Approaches – Traditional vs. Integrated