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Fortune 1000 Companies 4/2/2009 12:42:00 PMFortune 1000 corporations often find it difficult to drive innovation into new revenue streams. These organizations do innovative work, but often the firms have too much innovation and need to develop processes to channel this innovation into commercial success. The corporate DNA that supports historic success often inhibits new innovation by forcing it through these structured processes. While these processes ensure a controlled and thoughtful approach to innovation, they force ideas prematurely into a stage-gate development funnel that is synchronized with financial budgets and management planning.
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IP Law Firms | Above the Bar 3/1/2009 2:09:00 PMIn order for law firms to fulfill this sophisticated role, they must be able to use analytics that assess IP assets, beginning with their own firms’ representation abilities. Law firms can specifically use patent bibliometric techniques to assess their patent representation against other firms.
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2009 Patent Scorecard™ Leaders by Industry2/1/2009 2:21:00 PMThis year there are seven new and returning companies to lead their respective industries – including Fallbrook Technologies, Inc., Samsung Group, Royal Dutch Shell plc, Stine Seed Company, Schneider Electric SA, IBM Corporation and Boston Scientific Corporation. Four companies reaching the lead for their industry for the first time include Fallbrook Technologies Inc, Samsung Group, Schneider Electric SA, Stine Seed Company, and three companies – including IBM Corporation, Boston Scientific Corporation and Royal Dutch Shell plc - reclaimed their lead from two years ago.
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Patent Attorneys - A Profession in Transition12/1/2008 2:32:00 PMTraditionally, patent attorneys have focused solely on the critical legal role of prosecuting and litigating patents. In fact, the patent attorney has played one of the most important roles in the patent system. While any business, entrepreneur, or inventor will argue that patents could not exist without their innovative ideas or financial support, the same holds true for the deft drafting of a good attorney.
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New Ventures - What can patent analytics tell us about them?11/1/2008 2:46:00 PMThere are an estimated 600,000 new companies founded each year, and many with aspirations to be the next Google. These young tech-centric companies are really new ventures that often have new ideas and no way to demonstrate their worth to investors.
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Where is the Innovation? Government Sponsorship vs the Private Sector 10/1/2008 2:51:00 PMToday, Governments that want insight into both the macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects of technological competitiveness are one of the primary beneficiaries of Patent Analytics. Long gone are the days of the 1900s Laissez-Faire Governments where economic policy was entrusted to the invisible hand.
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Research Universities: Would they benefit from Patent Analytics?9/1/2008 3:05:00 PMPatents are in the DNA of research universities. Professors attain tenure within the universities’ “publish or perish” environment. Patents are a key vehicle to publish the professor’s breakthrough ideas. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston presents an exhibit of early man-made flints. Apparently, the flint makers from 60,000 years ago knew almost everything there was to know about sharp technology, because 30,000 years later, flints can be made only a bit sharper.
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Finding Innovation in core science | Mining Journal & Patent Information 6/1/2009 8:02:00 AM Breakthrough innovation typically requires a set of patents to properly protect the full extent of the innovation. Often the initial innovation is a scientific breakthrough that is followed with multiple technology developments that allow the idea to be commercialized. E Ink, which creates flexible electronic “paper like” displays, provides an example of this innovation pattern. A scientific discovery emerged that allowed for black and white charge sensitive pigments to be suspended in modules of clear fluid. When combined with the ability to create a single layer of these modules into a paper like display, a new product emerges. Following these innovations, multiple, more technology oriented innovations covering product refinement, end use and manufacturing evolved. While the patenting strategy is decoupled from the innovation time line, a patent pattern emerges. One or more scientific discovery patents are supported by a set of technology oriented patents. In total, E Ink’s U.S. patent portfolio includes 148 granted patents and 96 pending applications to cover the potential for this innovation. Moveover, indicators can differentiate between the initial scientific innovations and the subsequent technology developments.
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