Patent Licensing Insights: Buy drone patent technology
Imagine this – It’s late in the afternoon. You had a heavy lunch an hour or so ago, and your eyes are drooping now. All you want is a nap, but you cannot because you have work and responsibilities. Now, what if, right then, from nowhere, a drone lands on your workspace carrying a cup […]
What is the Automotive Industry doing about 5G? A sneak peek at their Patent and 3GPP contributions
A year ago, in 2020, we published our take on the state of 5G and why automotive industries should be investing in 5G unless they want to find themselves in hot water. Gladly, a year later, things have changed for the better. Automobile companies are actively working on 5G technology and are defining the industry’s […]
Why Tech Companies are filing Patents in the Tire Industry?
Did you know that tech companies like Apple, IBM, Intel and Qualcomm are filing patents in the tire domain?
Becoming the next IP hub: How far Singapore has reached?
As per the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2019, Singapore is ranked second in the world and top in Asia for having the best IP protection. This is pretty impressive as the World Economic Forum considers various factors for this evaluation, like ICT adoption, infrastructure, health, labor market, etc. (Source). One of these factors is […]
How to find prior art without spending countless hours on citation analysis?
Have you ever been lost in the ocean of cited references in a patent invalidation search? Citation analysis, although a powerful strategy, is often limited to the second or third generation of cited patents. It is difficult to go beyond because as you go from the third to fourth generation patents, the number of patent […]
This International Women’s day, let’s celebrate the women in IP
They say, “there’s no limit to what a woman can achieve, no bounds to do what she wants to do”. We say, well whoever ‘they’ are, they are absolutely right. And this is not true for just a day, or a week or a year, but for a lifetime. Women have conquered every other facet […]
9 Inspiring Women Inventors You Should Know About- no matter what!
If you are reading this on a smartphone, at some point down this list, you would be reading about a female inventor who developed an important component that powers your smartphones. Her company has shipped approximately 160 billion smartphone chips to date. Any guesses who she might be? Well, before you go on a guessing spree, […]
Top 10 US Patent Infringement Cases with Largest Patent Damages
In March 2021, Intel vs. VLSI made the news when a Texas court ordered Intel to pay $2.18 billion to VLSI for infringing two of its patents. The amount was the second-highest patent damages award in US History. In the history of initial patent damages awarded in the US, few cases—including the one above—crossed the […]
IoT Trends: A look at some of the major happenings in IoT in 2020
Being a research company, we love exploring technology trends and digging up insights related to those technologies, and lately, we have been fascinated with telecom technologies, and in extension, IoT. In our quest to explore the landscape of IoT technology, we tried to cover three different aspects, i.e. – market landscape, investment landscape, and technology […]
Who Owns Core 5G Patents? – Essentiality Check on 5G Declared Patents
This report is an update to the report titled “Exploration of 5G Standards and Preliminary Findings on Essentiality” published May 26, 2020. This report covers more than 700 technical specifications and technical reports related to 5G technology covered in the 3GPP Portal. The scope of the prior report covered 12,002 patent families, having 63,985 individual […]
Track recent patent assignments using GreyB’s assignment tracker
This assignment tracker helps you keep a track of recent assignment/reassignment activities happening in the US. The list provides the top 50 most recent patent assignments registered in the US patent office. Why should you keep a track of patent assignments? Keeping close tabs on patent assignment and reassignment activities gives you the intelligence that […]