IP-related statistics from the recent past

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

Figure 1. ITC Section 337 complaints filed by month, 2015-2016

Source: Law.com

Figure 1 shows the monthly number of new Section 337 complaints before the International Trade Commission (ITC) over the past 20 months – 2016 is on course to be the ITC’s second-busiest year ever, after 2011.

Table 1. Enforcement measures patent owners hope to take in the future, 2011-2014

Measure	2011	2012	2013	2014
Administrative complaint to patent authority	44%	43%	49%	46%
Patent office acting on its own initiative	61%	60%	54%	60%
Negotiated settlement	40%	40%	31%	26%
Civil court lawsuit	19%	16%	22%	24%

Source: State IP Office

China’s State IP Office (SIPO) has conducted a survey of domestic patent owners each year since 2008, polling its customers on their current practices and future plans when it comes to patent prosecution, enforcement and utilisation. This year, SIPO decided to release the results publicly for the first time. About 9,000 respondents participated in the study each year, with upwards of 80% coming from the corporate world, and the remainder represented by universities, research organisations and inventors. Table 1 shows their responses when asked what enforcement measures they hope to take against infringers.

Table 2. Stock performance of selected publicly traded IP-centric companies, July-September 2016

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 July and August 2016.

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, July-August 2016

#	Assignee entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	National Institutes Of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. Of Health And Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Government	290
2	Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation	104
3	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	69
4	Nestec S.A.	48
5	Dow Global Technologies LLC	44
6	ViiV Healthcare (No. 5) Limited	40
7	Intel Corporation	39
8	National Science Foundation	37
9	Cargill, Incorporated	36
10	SolarEdge Technologies Ltd.	33
11	The Regents Of The University Of California	32
12	International Business Machines Corporation	30
13	Griffin Technology, Inc	30
14	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	29
15	Microsoft Corporation	28
16	Olympus Corporation	27
17	Energy, United States Department Of	26
18	Novartis AG	26
19	Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)	24
20	Nokia Technologies OY	23
21	Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	23
22	Sony Corporation	21
23	Google Inc.	21
24	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	20
25	Nike, Inc.	20
26	Thomson Licensing	19
27	National Institutes Of Health - Director DEITR	19
28	Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.	19
29	NIH-DEITR	18
30	3M Innovative Properties Company	18

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

Table 3b. Top 30 patent assignors by number of transactions, July-August 2016

#	Assignor entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	Sony Corporation	106
2	University Of California, San Francisco	21
3	Dana-Farber Cancer Inst	20
4	Cornell University	13
5	Lai, Geoff	11
6	Frey, George	11
7	Deutsche Bank AG, New York Branch	10
8	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	10
9	Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.	9
10	Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.	9
11	University Of Rochester	8
12	Majors, Benjamin	8
13	Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.	8
14	Tallmadge Spinning & Metal Company	7
15	National Chip Implementation Center National Applied Research Laboratories	7
16	Golub Capital Markets LLC, Formerly Known As GCI Capital Markets LLC, As Successor To Madison Capital Funding LLC, As Agent	7
17	University Of South Florida	6
18	Rosestreet Labs Energy, Inc.	6
19	Case Western Reserve University	6
20	Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC	5
21	Rydin, Russ	5
22	O'Neil, Charles	5
23	Moran, David	5
24	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Mechatronics Systems, Ltd.	5
25	Kimree Hi-Tech Inc.	5
26	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.	5
27	Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University	5
28	Hitachi, Ltd.	5
29	Conductive Composites Company, L.L.C.	5
30	Bank Of America, N.A.	5

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

IP-related statistics from the recent past

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