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Thursday, July 29, 2010
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Samsung Group regains the #1 spot 1/5/2010 10:09:32 AM The latest Consumer Products Patent Scorecard™ was released today and has ranked 120 of the top Consumer Products companies according to the relative strengths of their patent portfolios as measured by Technology Strength™. The Patent Scorecard™ provides an overall assessment of a company’s recent intellectual property quality and quantity at a broad industry level. The Patent Board tracks seventeen industry scorecards and also creates customized scorecards that provide insight with leading performance indicators for an entire portfolio and its closest competitors, scalable at the technology or business unit level.
Samsung Group (Seoul, South Korea) moves up one spot back into 1st this quarter with a 54% increase in Science Strength™ and a 7% increase in Industry Impact™. The company’s Innovation Cycle Time™ remains #1 in the Top 50 and 3rd overall in the industry. Procter & Gamble Company (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) and NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Oregon, USA) both move up two spots to 2nd and 4th respectively. P&G improved its Industry Impact™ by over 8% and overall Technology Strength™ by 7%. Improving its Science Strength™ by 34% gives it the highest score in the industry and P&G maintained a Research Intensity™ double the industry average. Nike had a 4% increase in patent growth for the quarter, and with an Industry Impact™ increase of over 17%, the company’s Technology Strength™ climbed over 18% for the quarter. NIKE has continually climbed up the Patent Scorecard over the past year and a half; with this quarter’s rank it’s highest ever.
For the complete press release please email: cwren@patentboard.com 
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