Patent Landscape Report on Shape Memory Material – Polymer and Alloy
Introduction This blog takes a look into the patenting activity around shape memory material uncovering the companies, inventors, and key applications. A shape-memory alloy (SMA, smart metal, memory metal, memory alloy, muscle wire, smart alloy) is an alloy that “remembers” its original shape and that when deformed returns to its pre-deformed shape when heated. Similarly […]
Overview and use of Correlation Maps
We recently introduced a new method to display network mode maps in VizMAP and this blog focuses on discussing details of this map. First, a recap on network mode maps. Let us look at a very simple table of 5 companies vs IPC Main classes on a random sample of patents an applications on antivirus. […]
Nokia Vs Apple iPhone The Patent Battle Intensifies – Where Is The Reward For Innovation?
In telecom circles everyone is following the patent infringement battle between Nokia and Apple with keen interest on how it pans out. Nokia claims Apple infringed on no less than 10 of it’s patents related to wireless standards with the launch of the iPhone and no royalties or licensing fees have been paid by Apple […]
Delivering Key IP Asset Intelligence To Technology Management Decision Makers
Management of technology and research relies on being able to make the right decisions at the right time which in turn depends on the quick availability of reliable information. Whether deciding on strategy like what direction the innovation and research arm of the business should take and which are the areas the competition has left room […]
Patent Data Analysis Software – Making Life Easier In The World of Computer Technology & Semiconductors
Perhaps one of the most active areas in the forever evolving patent databases is the sphere computer technology and semiconductors. With the sheer volume of R&D in happening in this space today, patent offices world over are busy with new patents constantly being filed. It’s a constant and tedious process for the companies, researchers, legal […]
Competitive Intelligence – Keeping An Eye On The Competition By Tracking IP & Patent Activity
In our last post we talked about a popular notion that anything to do with patents is relevant only to those who need to file them and those who have legal vested interests in them. We concluded that if analyzed in the right perspective, patent activity can provide actionable intelligence across business functions. The fact is, […]
Boost your in-house IP research capabilities while cutting down on overall cost !
My previous blogpost (Corporate IP Practitioner’s need for flexibility and transparency ) had mentioned that a combination of a patent analysis platform such as Patent iNSIGHT Pro with a patent database can make a powerful and yet cost-effective solution to your needs for flexibility and transparency while accelerating activities that usually eat up most of your […]
Creating and maintaining technology portfolios
As a technology driven company, your business either revolves around a core technology in case of a startup or around multiple technologies and products for a large corporation and chances are you would be already accessing patent information from a patent database. However, if you are serious about IP and its role in your technology strategy […]
The New Technology Managers
The trend of keeping R&D professionals from being exposed to patent information on a need-only basis is reducing as companies realize that product innovation today requires more than just the strategy of applying innovative thinking. Till date, popular reasons for having research teams to not look at patent data have been patents research can – bias […]
Co-occurrence Matrix – Beyond just a chart generator..
I have been asked by many researchers on how an Excel pivot table is different from the co-occurrence matrix that we provide in Patent iNSIGHT Pro since both are primarily used to generate charts and trends between two or three analysis points. While Efficiency, Ease-of-use, direct integration between unstructured and structures fields, are perhaps obvious reasons, I […]