IP-related statistics from the recent past

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

Figure 1. The top patent holders in the Internet of Things (IoT) space as detailed in Relecura’s April report: “IoT - Technology Landscape and IP Commercialization Trends”. The full report is available here.

Figure 2. Median damages award (in $ million)

Figure 3. Median damages award (in $ million) (excluding summary and default judgment)

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

#	Assignee entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	National Institutes Of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. Of Health And Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Government	518
2	National Institutes Of Health - Director DEITR	306
3	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	247
4	Inphi Corporation	133
5	Olympus Corporation	96
6	LG Electronics Inc.	93
7	Intel Corporation	82
8	Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.	80
9	Dow Global Technologies LLC	79
10	Thomson Licensing	70
11	National Science Foundation	70
12	JES Technology, LLC	64
13	Qualcomm Incorporated	63
14	Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha	61
15	NASA	57
16	International Business Machines Corporation	56
17	The Regents Of The University Of California	55
18	Research In Motion Limited	55
19	Sony Corporation	53
20	Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC	52
21	Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)	48
22	Robert Bosch GmbH	48
23	Novartis AG	48
24	Blackberry Limited	48
25	Google Inc.	47
26	Apple Inc.	47
27	Stealth Peptides International, Inc.	46
28	Microsoft Corporation	45
29	Macom Connectivity Solutions, LLC	45
30	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	45

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

Table 2B. Top 30 patent assignors by number of transactions, March-April 2017

#	Assignor entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	University Of Massachusetts Medical School	103
2	University Of Massachusetts Medical Sch	97
3	Partners Healthcare Innovation	62
4	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	61
5	Washington University	59
6	Clariphy Communications, Inc.	51
7	University Of California Los Angeles	37
8	Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.	33
9	Zena Technologies, Inc.	31
10	Snacktops, Inc.	29
11	Wayne State University	26
12	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	24
13	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	23
14	Landis+Gyr Technology, Inc.	22
15	John Wayne Cancer Institute	21
16	Consert, Inc.	21
17	University Of Pennsylvania	19
18	Patel, Mahesh Vithalbhai	19
19	Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.	18
20	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	18
21	Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	17
22	Johnson, Jason	17
23	Northeastern Unviersity	16
24	New York University	16
25	Bank Of America, N.A.	16
26	Siemens Corporation	15
27	NSCL Trust, By Its Trustee 2327303 Ontario Inc.	15
28	NEC Tokin Corporation	15
29	Bhagwat, Sachin	15
30	University Of Florida	14

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)