Bridget Diakun

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• How to spend this Christmas, IAM style
• Why it’s time to forget the idea of “good” and “bad” patent examiners
• Hyundai – auto’s quiet patent superpower
• Inside the patent portfolio Ericsson gets as part of its $6 billion Vonage acquisition
• IP data analytics providers still struggling to find tools that work for a changing world
• Patent data reveals strong growth in key climate change mitigation technologies despite slow COP progress
• European and Asian automakers most likely to collaborate on innovation
• Nippon Steel’s patent portfolio gives it the litigation edge
• How a new business strategy at GlobalFoundries has affected its push for patents
• Analysis indicates that Access Advance is currently the top HEVC patent pool
• Data indicates Albright is less patentee-friendly than Gilstrap
• It’s tech, not patents, that makes Qualcomm a royalty-generating machine
• NPE litigation in the US bounces back
• Buyers are acquiring high-quality Toshiba patents, but it has plenty more on tap
• Inflated patent filings of low quality the outcome of China’s subsidies, new research finds
• Pfizer: light on patent filings and heavy on abandonments
• China’s overseas patent application volume remains high, but growth is slowing
• Elon Musk does not hate patents and Tesla’s famous pledge is not as generous as it seems
• Ofinno still has a lot of high-quality patents to offer after sell-offs to major innovators
• Broadcom is set to build its software patent holdings despite failure of SAS talks
• China’s tech giant crackdown is about much more than data control
• It will be a long time before non-patent professionals utilise IP analytics
• China’s top filing firms enjoy huge growth, but those in Japan and Korea stall
• How the top mobile licensors’ patent portfolios stack up geographically
• China dominates in solar energy patents, but Samsung and LG have the strongest portfolios
• How Roche, Bristol-Myers and Pfizer use M&A to strengthen their patent positions
• IBM leads on AI healthcare patent quantity while Philips is ahead on quality, data analysis shows
• Finding out who owns a patent is far harder than it should be – and that’s a problem
• LG’s smartphone portfolio is a treasure trove of high-quality 4G and 5G SEPs

• Newcomers to the lucrative streaming market are vulnerable to patent attack
• M&A moves by Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple have had significant patent pay-offs
• Top EV automakers’ patent portfolios indicate continued need for strategic alliances
• Sony’s strategy for IP success makes it rare among Japanese businesses
• BOE Technology’s patent portfolio explosion gives it a lot of firepower
• Grants of diagnostic patents climb in the US despite 101 uncertainty
• The nine things you need to know about the European patent landscape
• Top PCT representatives 2020
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• Inside the patent holdings of the companies at the cutting edge of battery technology
• Dialog’s patents will boost Renesas’ fast growing licensing business
• The cleantech gap in Big Oil patent portfolios spells more M&A in the sector
• IBM now abandoning patents up for renewal at rate of over 50%
• Top USPTO representatives 2020
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• US patent grants declined in 2020, but remain at historically high levels
• Exclusive data analysis of Apple’s secondary patent market activity
• Our top patent data stories of the year
• Patent data shows the complexity of the semiconductor manufacturing market
• What you need to know about patents and the fourth industrial revolution
• Data shows that Honda’s AI-fuelled patent cuts are having an impact
• How one man kick-started Samsung’s rise as a global patent superpower
• To stay ahead of the curve, patent research and analytics companies may need to look outside of IP
• Companies from South Korea and Japan spearhead battery technologies patent rush
• Ocado patent fight puts delivery and warehouse systems IP under the spotlight
• The Sonos v Google spat will be a tough test for the audio pioneer’s patents
• Xiaomi’s patent plays prepare it for a global role
• Sanofi eyes more M&A as deals drive increase in IP portfolio quality
• Revealed – the US law firms that receive the most patent filing work from abroad
• IAM benchmarking survey 2020
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