IP-related statistics from the recent past

A selection of key IP facts and figures, as reported by IAM and other sources

Table 1. Stock performance of selected publicly traded IP-centric companies, November 2015-January 2016

Source: Google Finance

The PIPX is an index of publicly traded IP licensing companies created by Dr Kevin Klein, former director of IP licensing at Freescale Semiconductor. The index is a capitalisation-weighted price-return measure of 13 listed companies. Figure 1 shows the percentage change of the PIPX Index during the calendar year 2015, along with the change in value of its 13 component companies. Figure 2 shows how much each component company contributed to changing the index over the same time period.

Figure 1. Percentage change in the value of the PIPX Index and its component stocks, 2015

Figure 2. Amount that each component stock affected the overall value of the PIPX Index, 2015

Tables 2a and 2b show 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 November and December 2015.

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 2a. Top 30 patent assignees by number of transactions, November-December 2015

#	Assignee entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	National Institutes Of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. Of Health And Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Government	236
2	Intel Corporation	124
3	U.S. Department Of Energy	119
4	Robert Bosch GmbH	117
5	National Institutes Of Health - Director Deitr	91
6	National Science Foundation	78
7	Rateze Remote Mgmt. L.L.C.	77
8	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	62
9	International Business Machines Corporation	61
10	Microsoft Corporation	55
11	Dow Global Technologies LLC	55
12	Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.	51
13	Sony Corporation	47
14	Chartoleaux KG Limited Liability Company	47
15	Oracle America, Inc.	46
16	Benhov Gmbh, LLC	46
17	Bayer Healthcare LLC	44
18	Sonicwall L.L.C.	43
19	Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.	43
20	Molex, LLC	41
21	Google Inc.	41
22	Tamiras Per Pte. Ltd., LLC	40
23	The Regents Of The University Of California	39
24	Energy, United States Department Of	39
25	DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.	38
26	AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.	38
27	Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company	37
28	Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.	37
29	Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha	35
30	Dell Software Inc.	34

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

Table 2b. Top 30 patent assignors by number of transactions, November-December 2015

#	Assignee entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	Citibank, N.A., As Collateral Agent	54
2	University Of Rochester	41
3	University Of Utah	35
4	Micropyretics Heaters International, Inc.	30
5	General Electric Capital Corporation, As Retiring Agent	30
6	Princeton University	22
7	McLean Hospital	21
8	Ohio State University	20
9	Brigham And Women's Hospital	20
10	Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.	17
11	Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.	14
12	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.	14
13	City Of Hope/Beckman Research Institute	14
14	Inviragen, Inc.	12
15	University Of California Los Angeles	11
16	ScienBizIp Consulting(Shenzhen)Co.,Ltd.	11
17	Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.	11
18	ZTE Corporation	10
19	Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research	10
20	Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	10
21	Del Palma Orthopedics, LLC	10
22	Translational Genomics Research Inst	9
23	The Ohio State University	9
24	Searete LLC	9
25	Bank Of America, N.A.	9
26	Sony Mobile Communications AB	8
27	Silicon Valley Bank	8
28	Scripps Research Institute	8
29	Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.	8
30	Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.	8

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

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