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)