IP-related statistics from the recent past

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

Figure 1. US patent applicants with the most allowances withdrawn since Alice Corp v CLS Bank

This chart shows which assignees of patent applications have had the most allowances (ie, notices that a patent application is allowable) withdrawn by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) since the US Supreme Court’s June 2014 decision in Alice Corp v CLS Bank International.

Source: “Apply it to the USPTO: Review of the implementation of Alice v CLS Bank in patent examination”, Tristan Gray-Le Coz and Charles Duan, 2014 Patently-O Patent Law Journal

Table 1. Stock performance of selected publicly traded IP-centric companies, September-November 2014

Source: Google Finance

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 USPTO. These results are calculated by aggregating the number of transactions completed by an assignee/assignor in September and October 2014. 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 appear multiple times in the tables.

Table 2a. Top 30 patent assignees by number of transactions, September-October 2014

#	Assignee entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	National Institutes Of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. Of Health And Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Government	284
2	Microsoft Corporation	134
3	Intel Corporation	105
4	International Business Machines Corporation	93
5	Qualcomm Incorporated	67
6	Kimree Hi-Tech Inc.	60
7	Energy, United States Department Of	56
8	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	55
9	U.S. Department Of Energy	53
10	Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.	52
11	Google Inc.	51
12	Cognex Technology And Investment LLC	50
13	Sony Corporation	48
14	The Regents Of The University Of California	44
15	Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.	43
16	Henkel Corporation	40
17	Apple Inc.	37
18	Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha	36
19	Robert Bosch GmbH	35
20	Novartis AG	34
21	The Invention Science Fund I, LLC	33
22	AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.	33
23	Silicon Valley Bank	31
24	Shutterfly, Inc	31
25	Henkel AG & Co. KGaA	31
26	Thomson Licensing	29
27	Nike, Inc.	28
28	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	28
29	Dow Global Technologies LLC	27
30	Valve Corporation	26

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

Table 2b. Top 30 patent assignors by number of transactions, September-October 2014

#	Assignor entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.	35
2	Searete LLC	25
3	Bank Of America, N.A.	22
4	AT&T Corp.	22
5	Yairi, Micah B.	20
6	AT&T Properties, LLC	18
7	NicOx SA	13
8	Euro-Celtique S.A.	13
9	Saal, Nathaniel Mark	12
10	Nestle Waters Management & Technology	11
11	Hueter, Geoffrey J.	11
12	Fujioka, Robb	11
13	Ciesla, Craig M.	11
14	Carswell, Ian B.	11
15	SPF Tech, LLC	10
16	Siemens Corporation	10
17	Nicholas, Frank C.	10
18	Ford, Byron D.	10
19	Oscillon Ltd.	9
20	Nanostim, Inc.	9
21	Liang, George	9
22	General Instrument Holdings, Inc.	9
23	Baylor College Of Medicine	9
24	Turner, David	8
25	STMicroelectronics Pvt. Ltd.	8
26	MO2, LLC	8
27	Marshall, Michael C.	8
28	Iyer, Sundar	8
29	Ejebe, Kenechi, Dr.	8
30	Cywee Group Limited	8

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

IP-related statistics from the recent past

Related Topics