Data Analysis

The companies with biggest trademark portfolios in Europe, China and the US

L’Oréal, Tencent, Disney and Unilever are among the entities that lead the way, according to exclusive data analysis undertaken by IAM's sister publication WTR

15 July 2022

Court analytics show Zebra’s $360M settlement with Honeywell follows litigation track record

The outcome was unsurprising considering Zebra’s settlements in other litigation, though a newly announced licence with InterDigital proves the company also comes to the negotiation table

11 July 2022

Toyota and Honda ramp up patent filings as wireless technologies become litigation battlefield

London-based firm Mathys & Squire’s research reveals that Japan is the most popular patenting jurisdiction for auto OEMs

08 July 2022

Six things to know about patent cases in the Southern District of New York

Although few disputes reach trial, some rights owners have won big in a venue that has one of the US’s speediest dockets

04 July 2022

Foreign patent grants surge in China

Numbers rebound after declining in 2020, with Samsung, Toyota and Qualcomm leading the way, according to data from the CNIPA

30 June 2022

Broadcom and VMware patent portfolios show strengths of proposed merger

The $69 billion proposal to bring the two companies together promises many potential synergies, but there are also dangers to guard against

28 June 2022

How top US patent courts compare on median time-to-trial statistics

PTAB judges have been told to focus on this data when deciding on a discretionary denial - and only SDNY beats the 18-month IPR deadline

27 June 2022

The numbers show exactly how Alice has rewritten the US patent litigation playbook

Docket Navigator data reveals defendants filing a skyrocketing number of Section 101 challenges since the 2014 decision and succeeding, much of the time, very early in cases

20 June 2022

Top USPTO representatives 2021

Featured in Prosecution data

Boston firm Fish & Richardson takes number one position in a year that saw most of the country's biggest prosecution practices experience negative growth

16 June 2022

Revealed: the law firms with the best records defending patents at the PTAB

Docket Navigator data shows Seattle-based Perkins Coie has racked up both the lowest institution rate and the lowest unpatentability rate in patentee-side IPR work since 2013

06 June 2022

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