IP-related statistics from the recent past

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

Figure 1. Patenting activity in connected and self-driving vehicle technology

Table 2. Stock performance of selected publicly traded IP-centric companies, September-November 2017

Source: Google Finance

Tables 3A and 3B 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 September and October 2017.

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 3A. Top 30 patent assignees by number of transactions, September-October 2017

#	Assignee entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	Google Inc.	184
2	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	164
3	Dow Global Technologies LLC	90
4	LG Electronics Inc.	88
5	Deka Products Limited Partnership	87
6	National Institutes Of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. Of Health And Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Government	84
7	National Institutes Of Health - Director DEITR	58
8	Sonos, Inc.	52
9	Siemens Healthcare GmbH	47
10	Tactual Labs Co.	47
11	Mahle International GmbH	46
12	Thomson Licensing	44
13	Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC	44
14	Total Raffinage France	41
15	Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.	40
16	The Regents Of The University Of California	40
17	National Science Foundation	40
18	BASF SE	40
19	Nike, Inc.	38
20	Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.	32
21	The Dow Chemical Company	31
22	Intel Corporation	31
23	Microsoft Corporation	30
24	Yahoo! Inc.	29
25	Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)	28
26	Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.	28
27	NXP B.V.	26
28	Toshiba Memory Corporation	26
29	The Governing Council Of The University Of Toronto	26
30	Phononic Devices, Inc.	26

Source: ktMINE

Table 3B. Top 30 patent assignors by number of transactions, September-October 2017

#	Assignor entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	The Scripps Research Institute	44
2	Case Western Reserve University	27
3	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	21
4	BASF Corporation	20
5	Forlines, Clifton	18
6	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	16
7	AT&T Properties, LLC	16
8	Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.	16
9	AT&T Corp.	15
10	Columbia Univ New York Morningside	15
11	Silicon Valley Bank	11
12	Hoyos Vsn Corp.	11
13	Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.	10
14	Leigh, Darren	10
15	Wells Fargo Bank, National Association	9
16	Bank Of America, N.A., As Administrative Agent	9
17	Sanders, Steven	9
18	Ritchey, Sharon A	9
19	Cornell University	9
20	Quixey, Inc.	8
21	ScienBiziP Consulting(Shenzhen)Co.,Ltd.	8
22	New York Blood Center	8
23	ZTE Corporation	7
24	Sears, Thomas M.	7
25	Sattar, Omer	7
26	Sanford, Kirk E.	7
27	Kimree Hi-Tech Inc.	7
28	University Of Georgia	7
29	Tankovich, Nikolai	7
30	Sony Corporation	6

Source: ktMINE

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