Blockchain Patents Landscape for Innovation Leadership 4Q 2019

Patent information can provide insights regarding the state of the art of the Blockchain technology innovation. Patents regarding the Blockchain technology innovation that specifically describe the major Blockchain technologies are a good indicator of the Blockchain innovations in a specific innovation entity. 

To find Blockchain technology innovation leadership for the US market, patents in the USPTO database are searched using relevant Blockchain keywords. Total of nearly 5,000 published patent applications regarding Blockchain technology innovation are identified as of 4Q 2019.

IBM is the leader in Blockchain patent application followed by Alibaba, Walmart, Bank Of America, Mastercard, American Express, Intel, Microsoft, Accenture, nChain Holdings, Coinplug, NEC, Apple, Fmr LLC, Pure Storage, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Cognitive Scale, SAP, Cisco, and PayPal.

It is interesting to find innovation leadership of Alibaba (E-commerce giant), Wal-Mart (a retail giant) and Intel (a semiconductor chip manufacturing leader) in Blockchain technology innovation.

Patent application activity chart shows a dramatic increase in technology innovation within four years. 

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AI (Artificial Intelligence) Patents Landscape for Innovation Leadership 4Q 2019

Patent information can provide insights regarding the state of the art of the AI technology innovation. Patents regarding the AI technology innovation that specifically describe the major AI technologies are a good indicator of the AI innovations in a specific innovation entity. 

To find AI technology innovation leadership for the US market, patents in the USPTO database are searched using relevant AI keywords. Total of nearly 20,000 published patent applications regarding AI technology innovation are identified as of 4Q 2019.

IBM is the leader in AI patent application followed by Microsoft, Samsung Electronics, Intel, Google, AT&T, Accenture, Qualcomm, LG Electronics, Siemens , General Electric, Toyota, Baidu, Comcast, Cisco, General Motors, Honda, Sony, Adobe, and Facebook.

It is interesting to find several automobile manufactures' AI innovation leadership: Toyota, GM, and Honda. It is also interesting to find Apple's relatively low innovation activity in AI compare to its competitors.

Patent application activity chart shows a dramatic increase in technology innovation within five years. 

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Free Webinar: Panel discussion about the role of IP in the IoT

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Panel discussion about the role of IP in the IoT community

As Panellists, we welcome Joyce Deuley (CEO & Founder Smart Texas Alliance), Kurt Kelley (CEO& Founder Excelerated Technology Consultants), Dr Alex G. Lee (Founder TechIPm and Managing Partner Liquidax Capital)

What this panel is about

In this panel, we will hear about the application of patents in IoT from Joyce Deuley, Kurt Kelley will discuss the dangers of IP when utilizing 3rd party services to build your total solution and Dr Alex G. Lee will cover several topics on IoT innovation and IoT + Big Data + AI integration strategy insights form patents, IP-based IoT innovation platform for business growth. After the panellists gave an insight into their topics, you will have the opportunity to join the open discussion where you will be able to ask questions and discuss some points directly with the panellists.

About the Speakers

Joyce Deuley: As an IoT analyst and content strategist, Joyce has spent the better part of the last five years examining IoT market trends, challenges and opportunities, and sharing the impact of what the IoT has to offer. Currently, Joyce is the Founder & CEO of a Texas-based, state-wide non-profit, the Smart Texas Alliance,  that is looking to promote and elevate the IoT community in order to make Texas a “Smart State” via education, partnership development, and community engagement.

Kurt Kelley: As CEO of his Technology Consultancy, Kurt specializes in developing relationships between carriers, re-sellers, and industry leading technology providers globally to solve real business challenges. Before founding Excelerated he served in multiple capacities at Verizon, and most recently Stream Technologies where he was responsible for managing the IoT re-sellers and vertical solution providers. With over twenty years of technology experience there is rarely a problem he is unable to organize an end to end solution for.

Dr Alex G. Lee: Alex brings over 25 years of unique experiences and expertise in consulting on business strategy, IP management, technology commercialisation and many more.Some leading companies and research institutions that Dr Lee has worked with include Samsung, Korea Telecom, KMW, MIC Radio Research Laboratory, Boston University, and Georgia Tech. Dr Lee has also founded and managed several companies and industry organizations such as TechIPm, LLC for IP strategy consulting, Xanadu Big Data, LLC for the big data technology licensing and commercialization, and u-City Forum for the IoT smart city development through public-private partnership and is now participating in the MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Program for strategy and innovation.

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Silicon Valley IoT Meetup, Startups Greater Asia Meetup, and IEEE Consultants' Network Joint Workshop

Subject: IoT + AI + Big Data Integration Strategy & IoT Innovation Insights from Patents and IP-Based Innovation Platform

Speaker: Alex G. Lee, TechIPm & Liquidax Capital

Venue: Carr & Ferrell LLP, 120 Constitution Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Date and Time: Friday, December 9, 2016 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM (PST)

12:00 -12:30 pm: Lunch and Networking, 12:30 -2:00 pm: Talk and Q&A

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Abstract:

Goldman Sachs, Mckinsey, and other top firms have long been predicting a boom and new era of technology with the ripening of the Internet of Things (IoT) marketing but WHERE are all the players PLACING THEIR BETS?

Exploring innovation insights and analyzing patent trends in verticals such as wearables, smart homes and cities, connected car, and etc. we'll dive into the state of the art of IoT innovations. We will also look at potential innovation R&D areas that can lead to new products/services development and how to take advantage of the Liquidax Capital private equity fund and its IoT Innovation Platform. We will further touch on the impact of fast-growing cross-border technology transfer transactions particularly investments flowing from Asia to the West as well as transfer and distribution of technologies from the West to Asia.

This talk will cover the following topics:

IoT Innovation Frontiers Insights from Patents,

IoT Innovation Development Exploiting Patents

IoT + Big Data + AI Integration Strategy

IoT Innovation Platform for Business Growth

Cross-border IoT Tech Transfer Deal Trends

Leveraging Strengths in the Asian and US IoT Markets

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Alex G. Lee brings over 25 years of unique experiences and expertise consulting with Fortune 500 companies patent monetization firms, law firms, investment firms, and research institutions on technology R&D, technology commercialization, business development, intellectual property (IP) management, and business strategy consulting into business, technology, and IP integrated strategy development and execution.

Some leading companies and research institutions that Dr. Lee has worked with include Samsung, Korea Telecom, KMW, MIC Radio Research Laboratory, Boston University, and Georgia Tech. Dr. Lee  also has founded and managed several companies and industry organizations such as TechIPm, LLC for IP strategy consulting, Xanadu Big Data, LLC for the big data technology licensing and commercialization, and u-City Forum for the IoT smart city development through public-private partnership.

Dr. Lee earned his Ph.D. in physics from the Johns Hopkins University and J.D. from the Suffolk University Law School. He is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office, is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and passed New York State Bar Exam. Dr. Lee is now participating in the MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Program for strategy and innovation.

IoT Innovation Opportunity

Liquidax Capital, LLC is an investment advisory firm sponsoring and managing private equity innovation funds. The Liquidax debut fund; Liquidax Global Exchange Fund I, LP focuses on the acquisition and monetization of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and intellectual property rights for target injection into numerous public companies operating on global stock exchanges, as well as, venture capital backed private companies boosting business growth and expediting exits.

Liquidax invests its IoT innovation platform to partner companies for providing competitive advantages in the IoT market. Liquidax's strategically packaged technology that is in complete alignment with IPR enables cost effective and faster time to market innovation. If you are looking for a new opportunity in the IoT market, I would enjoy having a discussion and sharing more.

Contact: Alex G. Lee (alex.lee@liquidax.com)

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IoT Connected Car Innovation R&D White Space Insights from Patents

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/iot-connected-car-innovation-rd-white-space-insights-alex-g-?published=t

Open IP Innovation: Korea's Creative Economy Innovation Centers

The South Korean government opened its 12th creative economy innovation center in Yeosu recently. The creative economy innovation center project is to provide business platform for creative start-ups and SMEs in collaboration with incumbent companies. The South Korean government is going to open five more creative economy innovation centers this year. Start-ups can have several incubating supports including office space, legal and financing services, engineering facilities and testing equipments. A key hosting company in each regional center will develop a business ecosystem collaborating with other affiliated start-ups and SMEs for a specific industry.

For example, LG Group will help to incubate 20 biotechnology venture businesses this year through the Chungbuk regional creative economy innovation center. LG Group also opened its 52,000 patents to SMEs and start-ups through the IP support zone of the center. Total of 5,200 patents will be provided for free. Samsung Group also opened its 38,000 patents in various fields including telecommunication, semiconductor and display to SMEs and venture companies through the IP support zone of the Daegu-Kyeongbuk regional creative economy innovation center. Total of 3,000 patents will be provided for free. Samsung Group will send its patent experts to the center to help exploiting its patents by the selected members of the center.

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A Root of Killer Applications for Smartphones & Connected Cars

HBS Professor Iansiti, the author of “The Keystone Advantage,” suggested technological assimilation as a new engine for technological innovations in his article “Creative Construction.”  In the technological assimilation frameworks, a core innovation that once provided stand-alone products or services for a specific market can be the building blocks for mass market generating innovations through assimilation to broader platforms that were not existed at the time of innovations. One example may be the GPS technology providing LBS (location based services) applications for smartphones and automobiles.

To find the core innovation for smartphones and automobiles LBS, backward citations of related patents are studied. The citation analysis reviles that many of the LBS applications for smartphones and automobiles are rooted to NASA’s invention for deep space communication issued as US3311832 in 1963.

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A Root of Apple’s Smartphone Innovation

The fundamental goal of providing certain exclusive rights for a limited time to one’s invention is to create incentives which can maximize social welfare (the difference between the economic benefits and costs) provided by the patent system. As the society changed from industrial economy to knowledge economy, software, which is the fundamental technology for computer and internet, are appeared as the most important building block for the economic development  of our society. Following the society’s need for the development of software technology, the patent system came to provide the exclusive rights to software inventions.

Recently, software patents, however, are blamed as one of the major culprits for the cracks in the current patent system: As the result of low cost for software inventions combined with abstract nature, a large number of low-quality software patents can be produced. A large percent of the produced software patents are end up being litigated more frequently in the courts, especially, exploited by patent trolls. Consequently, there are several measures are discussed to weaken protection of software patents (ref. http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/software-patents-patent-trolls-understanding-obamas-measures). One of reasons that strong patent protection is not needed for software inventions is the cumulative innovation nature of software. A large number of software inventions are sequential and iterative improvements of preexisting inventive ideas and software codes. Therefore, the incremental improvement characteristic of software invention process can suppress and limit the widespread use of the software inventions without infringing the exclusive rights.

As a case study for the cumulative innovation nature of software, backward citations of Apple’s patent’s for smartphone application - Siri - are studied. Siri is the smart personal assistant application that allows users to place phone calls, send a message, write a memo, open a music, and check schedule by voice command. Recently, Apple accused Samsung’s Galaxy S3 and S4 for infringement of its Siri patents US8086604 US6847959 (ref. http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/samsung-galaxy-s3-s4-in-patent-lawsuits). The citation analysis reviles that Siri patents US8086604 US6847959 are rooted to Bell Lab’s invention for voice recognition mechanism issued as US2195081 in 1940. Geneology of Apple’s Siri patents are as follows.

US2195081 (Sound printing mechanism: Bell Lab) is referenced by US3742143 (Limited vocabulary speech recognition: Bell Lab). US3742143 is referenced by US4737976 (Hands-free control system for a radiotelephone: Motorola). US4737976 is referenced by US5054082 (Method and apparatus for programming devices to recognize voice commands: Motorola). US5054082 is referenced by US5303148 (Voice actuated volume image controller and display controller: Picker International). US5303148 is referenced by US5729741 (System for storage and retrieval of diverse types of information obtained from different media sources which includes video, audio, and text transcriptions: Golden Enterprises). Finally, US5729741 is referenced by US6847959 (Universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system: Apple).
 
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S. Korea's Innovation leadership in Emerging Wireless Technologies

In its special report "Best Country in the World," Newsweek ranked S. Korea as the second in education and the third in economic dynamism (http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2010/08/15/best-countries-in-the-world.html). In its special research "The Global Broadband Spectrum," Technology Review ranked S. Korea as the world's best in the high-speed networks infrastructure(http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/25567/).

S. Korean government deserves receiving most of the credit for these successes. S. Korean government’s continuing innovation policy in collaboration with private sectors facilitated the rapid growth and successful implementations.

Global market leadership in mobile communications is the best practice resulting from such collaboration. In recent TechIPm's research for innovation leadership in emerging wireless communications technologies also implied S. Korea's continuing leadership in future wireless/mobile market (http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8787276634250924282&postID=2464749080961477247).


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Commercialization as Dominant Design Strategy

Dominant Design is the key technological designs that become a standard in the market place. Commercialization as Dominant Design Strategy is a strategic way to make your innovative technology as a dominant design by forming a business ecosystem:

S. Korea is the best place for testing commercial potentials of newly developed innovative technologies in IT and Telecom. Once a new technology is successful in S. Korea’s testing market, it could become a global dominant design such as in the case of Qualcomm’s CDMA technology. TechIPm, LLC provides the strategy and business development consulting services by launching your technology prototype in S. Korea’s testing market based on more than 10 years business experiences in S. Korea.

Examples for IT & Telecom teating market projects in S. Korea:

New Mobile WiMAX Services in S. Koreahttp://techipm-innovationfrontline.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-mobile-wimax-services-in-s-korea.html

Future Network 2020: S. Korea’s Strategy for Global Innovation Hub in ICThttp://techipm-innovationfrontline.blogspot.com/2009/12/future-network-2020-s-koreas-strategy.html

Songdo u-City: Global IT Innovation Hubhttp://techipm-innovationfrontline.blogspot.com/2009/12/songdo-u-city-global-it-innovation-hub.html

M2M: S. Korean Telco’s New Strategic Optionshttp://techipm-innovationfrontline.blogspot.com/2009/12/m2m-s-korean-telcos-new-strategic.html

4G Smart Phone Innovation Cluster in S. Koreahttp://techipm-innovationfrontline.blogspot.com/2010/01/4g-smart-phone-innovation-cluster-in-s.html

Mobile Cloud Computing Test-Bed & Standardization in S. Koreahttp://techipm-innovationfrontline.blogspot.com/2010/01/4g-smart-phone-innovation-cluster-in-s.html

If you want to develop a new IT & Telecom business in S. Korea, please contact Dr. Alex G. Lee at alexglee@techipm.com