IP-related statistics from the recent past

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

Figures 1 and 2 show the share of new patent litigation cases filed in selected federal districts before and after the US Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland LLC v Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC. The ruling held that, as applied to domestic corporations, ‘residence’ in the patent venue statute Section 1400(b) refers only to the state of incorporation. After the May 22 2017 decision, the District of Delaware overtook the Eastern District of Texas as the top venue for new suits.

Figure 1. 2017 patent litigation pre-TC Heartland

Figure 2. 2017 patent litigation post-TC Heartland

Table 1. Stock performance of selected publicly traded IP-centric companies, May-July 2017

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 US Patent and Trademark Office. These results are calculated by aggregating the number of transactions completed by an assignee/assignor in May and June 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 2A. Top 30 patent assignees by number of transactions, May-June 2017

#	Assignee entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	National Institutes Of Health - Director DEITR	502
2	National Institutes Of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. Of Health And Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Government	392
3	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	188
4	Trimble Inc.	151
5	Dow Global Technologies LLC	127
6	LG Electronics Inc.	110
7	National Science Foundation	109
8	Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC	79
9	Intel Corporation	74
10	Olympus Corporation	71
11	The Regents Of The University Of California	65
12	Siemens Healthcare GmbH	63
13	Sony Corporation	61
14	Nestec S.A.	61
15	Thomson Licensing	58
16	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	56
17	Abb Schweiz AG	56
18	Optinose AS	53
19	Nalco Company LLC	50
20	Google Inc.	49
21	Youngo Limited	47
22	Microsoft Corporation	44
23	Qualcomm Incorporated	42
24	Koninklijke Philips N.V.	39
25	Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.	39
26	Alibaba Group Holding Limited	39
27	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	38
28	University Of Southern California	37
29	Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)	37
30	Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.	37

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

Table 2B. Top 30 patent assignors by number of transactions, May-June 2017

#	Assignor entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	Partners Healthcare Innovation	161
2	University Of Utah	76
3	Washington University	73
4	Landmark Enterprise Inc.	47
5	North Carolina State University Raleigh	44
6	Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.	40
7	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	37
8	Shire-NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	33
9	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	33
10	University Of Delaware	31
11	Mcghie, Sean I.	30
12	Buchheit, Brian K.	29
13	Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	25
14	Boston Children's Hospital	23
15	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	21
16	PNC Bank, National Association	21
17	University Of Colorado	19
18	Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.	19
19	Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation	19
20	Wang, King-Yuan	18
21	Desomma, Frank L.	17
22	University Of Maryland, College Park	16
23	Bank Of America, N.A.	16
24	Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai	15
25	Silicon Valley Bank	15
26	Quarterhill Inc.	15
27	University Of Florida	14
28	HP Printing And Computing Solutions, S.L.U.	14
29	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	14
30	Univ Of North Carolina Chapel Hill	13

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

IP-related statistics from the recent past

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