Guidelines for Preparing Patent Landscape Reports Available from WIPO and...
For those of you who have visited my home page over the past few years you will have noticed in the introductory comments that I have been assisting the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)...
View ArticlePatent ownership data – an optional extra or part of the duty to disclose? –...
Earlier this year, Aistemos launched the Open Register of Patent Ownership (ORoPO). Their earlier report “Who owns the world’s patents?” summarised their arguments in support of this open-access...
View ArticleVisualizing Virtual Reality: An Introduction to Patent Citation Network...
Patent citations are often used to determine the impact of patents, or groups of patents on the interrelatedness between organizations based on their co-citation patterns. A valuable way of looking at...
View ArticleAre Flexible Electronic Displays the Future of Smartphone Display Technology?...
During the summer it was my pleasure to work with two interns from local universities. As part of their instruction I asked each of them to pick a topic of their choice, and to generate a patent...
View ArticleRegistration Now Open for 2016 PIUG Patent Searching Fundamentals Course
It has been my pleasure to be associated with this patent searching course for many years now, but for the past few years I have only provided a lunch talk, which was given remotely. I am happy to...
View ArticleRegistration Open for On-line IP Landscaping and Patent Analytics Course
I am happy to report that students are being sought for the first session of the IP Landscaping, and Patent Analytics course I developed for the Masters Program in IP Management and Markets at the...
View ArticleGridlogics Expands Patent Data Coverage of PatSeer
Generally speaking, in the world of patent searching, and in particular validity, and clearance searching more information is better. Gridlogics, the company behind Patent iNSIGHT Pro, and PatSeer is...
View ArticleRelecura’s New Bucketing Module Provides Flexibility without Sacrificing Control
On several occasions I have talked about the importance of categorization, or bucketing when conducting a patent landscape report (PLR). Buckets provide context, and depth to the study of a technical...
View ArticleGridlogics Brings Pro Analytic Features to the Web with Introduction of...
Gridlogics has been an established player for many years in the patent search, and analysis industry. Their Patent iNSIGHT Pro application was one of the early examples of a broad ranging patent...
View ArticleRegistration Open for Summer 2017 IP Landscaping, and Patent Analytics...
Registrations are being sought for the summer 2017 session of the IP Landscaping, and Patent Analytics course I developed for the Masters Program in IP Management and Markets at the Illinois Institute...
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