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The study first published on Feb 24, 2018, and then updated on Feb 18, 2019, Nov 5, 2019, Feb 13, 2020, and recently on July 19, 2020. Back in 1994, Jeff Bezos was stunned after discovering the [...]

Patent Licensing Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help anybody in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition [...]

On Apr 28, 2020, InterDigital entered a worldwide patent licensing agreement with Huawei Technologies Ltd, and also settled all litigation against each other. The licensing agreement runs through [...]

Note – The report first published on Sep 2, 2018, and updated on May 8, 2019. Recently, it updated on June 4, 2020. 5G – The most awaited technology for years altogether is finally here. A [...]

As we create and consume ever greater amounts of data, telecommunication technology becomes increasingly important and integrated into our lives. The latest major wave of innovation, 5G, is [...]

Patent Licensing Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help anybody in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition [...]

Patent Licensing Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help anybody in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition [...]

After 3 stressful years of consulting dozens of medical professionals, being hospitalized more than 50 times, and missing a significant part of his fourth and fifth-grade school, 11-year-old [...]

With the overall change in the patent market- dropping sales, increase in software patent sales, rise and fall of NPE litigation and the mere existence of Alice, it is important to encompass the [...]

Patent Licensing Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help anybody in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition [...]

The article was first published on Sep 6, 2017. It was later updated on Mar 22, 2019, and Sep 5, 2019. It recently got updated again on Apr 26, 2020. Even though the concept started as early as [...]

BOS Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help you in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition strategies.  Short for [...]

Heard of the Boy Scout-turned-entrepreneur who 3D printed numerous ear-guards for the healthcare workers on the front lines? Well, the phrase “Necessity is the mother of invention” holds as a [...]

BOS Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help you in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition strategies.  Short for [...]

BOS Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help you in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition strategies.  Short for [...]

BOS Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help you in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition strategies.  Short for [...]

BOS Insights is a section featuring insights/trends from our in-house tool BOS, which can help anybody in designing and picking appropriate patent monetization and acquisition strategies.  Short [...]

Twitter’s strategy to make its platform more engaging and less spam turned out to be great. And the company is not just thriving but has great user growth and along with it is what every company [...]

Xiaomi has been surprising the consumer electronics industry with its innovative and affordable products since its inception. Founded in 2010, the startup quickly became a smartphone leader in [...]

In the previous article, we talked about the research of Fujifilm in the skincare domain. While it’s a surprise for the skincare players, it could have been anticipated by analyzing the earlier [...]

Did we tell you about that one photographic film company that made an annual sale of over 10 billion yen in 2010 by selling skincare products? One, which can be very easily overlooked by major [...]

Editor’s Note: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton (a leading US patent law firm) and GreyB Services collaborated to help you understand what kind of research trends 12 fast-growing tech [...]

Knowing the expiration date of a patent is important for multiple reasons; A key reason being that an expired patent goes into the public domain, which means everyone can now freely practice it. [...]

With the exponential improvement in innovations in the communications domain, the cars of today are becoming increasingly connected – both with each other and the environment. V2X, which [...]

It is alarming, the unending increase in convenience that technology is providing to humankind.  To such an extent that it has advanced towards saving lives. Technology has rooted itself in every [...]

In his book, The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell describes how the poor miners in the 30s’ who couldn’t afford to buy coal from the market painfully scavenged bits and pieces of it from [...]

The Industrial IoT technology is still in its infancy, but according to research reports, its market is expected to reach $105 billion by 2025 with a 7% CAGR. Industrial IoT, otherwise known as [...]

Smart Speakers have become quite the household commodity nowadays. Recently, I was working on a research study related to smart speakers, as a result of which I got to know a good deal about [...]

Contributors – Priya Vashishth, Sushant Kumar, and Shikhar Sahni

Imagine a doctor who knows and understands all the recent advancements in medicine, who has access to millions of patient records and the kind of treatment that worked for them, and who can bring [...]

The United States has been grappling with pain management drugs that contain opioids for quite a while. Multiple studies and court rulings indicate opioids in these drugs make millions addicted. [...]

The cannabis industry, over the period, has dramatically adopted the minimalist mantra in the form of ‘microdosing’, aka infusing a very small amount of cannabis into various kinds of products [...]

Editor’s Note: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton (a leading US patent law firm) and GreyB Services collaborated to help you understand what kind of research trends 12 fast-growing tech sectors [...]

In 2018, we witnessed a dramatic rise in AI-based platforms, tools, and applications. One reason is that the big players from multiple domains like Google, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Facebook, Microsoft, [...]

What are the research trends our industry is following? Which competitor is building what kind of technical expertise? Are these among some of the questions that you want to get answered? Patent [...]

There is a lot of research and implementation going on to provide solutions for the telecom industry using Blockchain technology. This study could give you an idea about the level of intensity in [...]

A Deloitte survey – in which the company interviewed 1000 M&A executives of top US companies and private equity firms – reveals that 79% of executives at corporations, and 87% of M&A [...]

Did you know that LiFi can transfer data at speeds up to 224 Gbps? The sad fact is, the technology is still in the development phase and it’s going to be a while before it reaches our [...]

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural? – Bill Hicks (American stand-up [...]

In recent months, the legal Cannabis market has emerged as a hot topic of discussion among technology enthusiasts, as the market is emerging post-haste as more and more governments are legalizing [...]

As 5G technology is approaching realization faster, a surge could be noticed in the patent filing activity by telecom companies. China is at the forefront, in terms of filing numbers, as major [...]

“I’m in the weed-growing business. And cousin, business is a ’boomin!”                                                                                        …

Bitcoin took a wild ride in 2017, going all the way from about $1,000 back in January to $19,000 at one point in December. A lot of the virtual currency’s activity was driven by individuals and [...]

On May 22nd of 2017, the Supreme court of the US issued its landmark ruling on TC Heartland LLC V Kraft Foods, the decision being credited to have changed the law on venue for patent cases. Few [...]

IP House, a research group of 30 IP professional set up in 2014, analyzed 5022 out of 5432 cases handled by the Beijing IP Court, one of the three specialized IP court of China. Out of these [...]

Do you know that there is a technology that lets you generate energy from the sun even when the sky is cloudy or when it is raining? Our fossil fuel sources are depleting at supersonic speed. [...]

IBM received more than 8000 patents last year but at the same time, they also abandoned more than 4000 patents from their portfolio. For the last few years, their patent grant to lapse ratio has [...]

If you are not innovating, you are planning your exit. Paul Perreault, CEO, CSL Ltd. We live in an era of stifling competition where the only factor that sets apart the top players from the rest [...]

Gone are the days when a watch only used to tell time. Well, even today it does tell time, but with ever-increasing multi-tasking requirements in ubiquitous technologies, it is quite obvious that [...]

The new fuel nozzle of GE’s Leap jet engine is one monolithic piece that is manufactured by spraying fine alloy powder in a printer where it’s then heated using a laser. The process is then [...]

This article is a part of our in-depth technology landscape analysis on solar cells (specifically about nano-photovoltaic solar cells). For your ease, we have divided the entire analysis into 4 [...]

A*Star is one of the entities with an exciting patent portfolio distributed across diverse applications. This was precisely the reason we picked it for our study on analyzing the potential of [...]

Earth receives enough sunlight to generate around 52 Petawatt/hr of energy. To give you an idea, China’s entire electricity production in 2013 was 5.21 Petawatt/hr which is equal to 10% of what [...]

With a valuation of over $85 billion and 130th rank in Fortune 500, Qualcomm has indeed come a long way since its humble beginning in 1985. The turning point of their fortune was the mass [...]

In the next 40 years, all of our non-renewable energy resources will disappear if we keep exploiting them at the current pace. Stats like this shifted our focus on finding alternative renewable [...]

The push to develop solar cells with higher efficiency and lower manufacturing cost has never been more urgent than today when the climate changes are escalating. The Sun in an hour provides [...]

In our last post of the LiFi series, we learned how LiFi Technology evolved in the past few years. We also learned how the companies are trying to make LiFi a household name. In this article, we [...]

Encompassed in beautiful alpine ranges, Germany – the second-largest country in Europe – boasts not only of scenic beauty but is also an important hub of innovation. Home to major pharmaceutical [...]

After traveling together on a long road for 43 years, on 19 Feb 2013, the 25 member states signed a deal to end the regime of the “bundled patent” system by setting up a Unitary Patent Court in [...]

In our last post in the LTE series Top 50 Innovative Companies of 4G LTE, we shared that Qualcomm is one of the top innovators in this space, filing a maximum number of patents in the 4G LTE [...]

Traditionally, the Australian economy has been highly dependent on mining operations and farming. Although consistent innovation is happening in the mining sector, the other sectors are being [...]

A tall gentleman is standing at the center of the stage. All eyes in the audience are glued to him. The audience is in a state of confusion and is skeptical after what he announced. The hall is [...]

When we talk about the region having innovative and successful countries, the list can’t go on without having Mideast on it. Apart from a major source of the world’s crude oil and petroleum [...]

In the last decade, we have seen a rapid advancement in the digital oil field. This facilitated improved remote operations, accurate geophysical estimation, use of new drilling techniques, [...]

This post – Competitive Intelligence – is a part of the series Digital Oil Field Study based on the patent landscape in which we have already discussed the innovation timeline and the research [...]

The article provides insights of the countries with high R&D activities in digital oilfield technologies. The insights – driven from a patent landscape study on digital oil field [...]

A patent landscape study on digital oil field technologies is conducted based on the patents filed in the last 20 years. The study uncovers how the research took place globally in the last 20 [...]

The IT industry is known for its fair share of mergers and acquisitions. From acquiring nascent start-ups with a small revenue stream to those with huge potential, the technology industry has [...]