IP-related statistics from the recent past

Table 1. Quietest months for US patent cases, 2012-2016

Month	Cases filed
January 2016	279
December 2015	280
February 2016	285
August 2015	311
September 2015	335
January 2014	336
September 2014	336

Source: Lex Machina

The monthly figure for new US patent lawsuit filings spiked to 845 last November ahead of new pleading standards which took effect on December 1 2015. The three months since then have been the quietest for new filings in the last four years.

Table 2. Top Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applicants of 2015, based on published applications

Rank	Applicant	Country	Number of PCT applications	Change from 2014
1	Huawei Technologies Co. LTD.	China	3,898	456
2	Qualcomm Incorporated	United States	2,442	33
3	ZTE Corporation	China	2,155	-24
4	Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.	Republic of Korea	1,683	302
5	Mitsubishi Electric Corporation	Japan	1,593	0
6	Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)	Sweden	1,481	-31
7	LG Electronics Inc.	Republic of Korea	1,457	319
8	Sony Corporation	Japan	1,381	399
9	Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.	Netherlands	1,378	-13
10	Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.	United States	1,310	484

Source: WIPO

Table 3. Stock performance of selected publicly traded IP-centric companies, January-March 2016

Source: Google Finance

Tables 4A and 4Bshow the entities with the highest volume of in-bound patent assignment transactions (assignee table) and out-bound patent assignment transactions (assignor table), as recorded at the US Patent and Trademark Office. These results are calculated by aggregating the number of transactions completed by an assignee/assignor in January and February 2016.

One transaction may include multiple patents, patent families and patent portfolios. Many companies create numerous holding vehicles to house their different IP portfolios; this is why similar company names may appear multiple times in the tables.

Table 4a. Top 30 patent assignees by number of transactions, January-February 2016

#	Assignee entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	Solum Co., Ltd	162
2	Callahan Cellular L.L.C.	141
3	National Institutes Of Health - Director Deitr	90
4	Microsoft Corporation	76
5	Intel Corporation	71
6	Robert Bosch GmbH	67
7	Ulsan National Institute Of Science And Technology	67
8	Ol Security Limited Liability Company	59
9	Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	58
10	F. Poszat Hu, L.L.C.	54
11	The Regents Of The University Of California	50
12	Dow Global Technologies LLC	49
13	International Business Machines Corporation	49
14	Sony Corporation	46
15	Nokia Technologies Oy	45
16	Google Inc.	42
17	Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.	41
18	Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha	40
19	Xenogenic Development Limited Liability Company	39
20	Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company	37
21	Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	36
22	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	36
23	Qualcomm Incorporated	35
24	Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.	34
25	Research In Motion Limited	34
26	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha	34
27	Marvell International Ltd.	33
28	Rex Medical, L.P.	33
29	Skyworks Solutions, Inc.	33
30	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	32

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

Table 4b. Top 30 patent assignors by number of transactions, January-February 2016

#	Assignor entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	Unist Academy-Industry Research Corporation	67
2	University Of Rochester	43
3	Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.	42
4	Bally Gaming, Inc.	31
5	Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.	29
6	Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.	21
7	Bank Of America, N.A.	14
8	Zlemma, Inc.	13
9	O2micro Inc.	13
10	University Of Connecticut	11
11	Leanics Corporation	11
12	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.A., As Agent	11
13	Autoliv Nissin Brake Systems Japan Co., Ltd.	11
14	Marvell World Trade Ltd.	10
15	Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.	10
16	Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch	10
17	Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	9
18	Takamoto, Naohide	9
19	Soon-Shiong, Patrick	9
20	Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.	9
21	Roosenboom-Kooijmans, Maria Helena	9
22	Maclennan, Grant A.	9
23	University Of California San Diego	8
24	Searete LLC	8
25	Princeton University	8
26	Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.	8
27	Gupta, Amit	8
28	Cook Incorporated	8
29	Zeevi, Yehoshua Y	7
30	Villar, Vicente Cajiga	7

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)