IPlytics Platform: Intelligence IP Analytics SaaS

It is excited to announce that TechIPm entered into an agreement with IPlytics for the promotion and sale of the IPlytics Platform in China, Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan and the United States of America.
The IPlytics Platform is an intelligence IP analytics SaaS to analyze patent strategy, technology trends, market developments and a company’s competitive position using the  innovative big data & machine learning techniques.

If you are interested in the IPlytics Platform, please contact Alex G. Lee (alexglee@techipm.com).

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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Apple v. Google v. Samsung IoT Smart Home Strategy Insights from Patents

Patents can provide insights regarding the state of the art of IoT (Internet of Things) innovation, and thus, a strategic move of a company for the IoT business leadership. To compare the business strategy of the three leading companies in the IoT Smart Home applications, Apple, Google and Samsung, patent information is exploited for the cross-competitor analysis.

According to Dr. Benjamin Gilad with the Academy of Competitive Intelligence, the goal of the cross-competitor analysis is to enable one to simplify predictions of competitors’ moves and countermoves when multiple competitors are involved. Through the cross-competitor analysis, one can understand that: Competitors’ behavior when there are several significant competitors; Paradigm shifts in industries undergoing rapid change or transition; Entry of new competitors into the competitive landscape; Future directions in strategic move among industry contenders. The strategic map is a tool used in the cross-competitor analysis for visualizing the competitive landscape: A chart for a strategic parameter No.1 (e.g. product/service portfolio, distribution channel etc.) vs. a strategic parameter No.2 (e.g. product/service price, quality, brand etc.); The map is static (for dynamics, one can use arrows).

To do the cross-competitor analysis for the IoT Smart Home exploiting patents, more than 300 US patent published applications of Apple, Google and Samsung that are related to the IoT Smart Home applications are reviewed. To obtain the strategic parameters for the IoT Smart Home, a system approach to the IoT patents is adopted. The disclosures of the IoT patent can be considered as a system that is consist of several subsystems: environmental context, IoT sensor, information, transfer mean and processing tool.

A.  Environmental context is the context of the surrounding object(s) sensed by the IoT sensor. Some examples are a person’s or vehicle’s location or movement, surround environments (lighting, weather)/situations, and works to be done.

B. IoT sensor is a stand-alone or embedded device that can sense/recognize its surrounding environments (including position/movement/identification) with networking capability. Some examples are RFID imbedded items, sensor embedded home appliances, wearable healthcare devices and vehicle control system.

C. Information is the context data obtained by the IoT sensor for specific purpose. For example, the context room temperature is measure to obtain the data for automatic room temperature control.

D. Transfer mean is the networking/communicating medium/infrastructure that can interconnect sensing devices and connect sensing devices to the internet. Some examples are 3G/4G/5G mobile networks, wireless connectivity (WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, NFC etc.), internet/telephone connectivity and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) connectivity.

E. Processing tool is the back-end or embedded (IoT devices, wearable devices) IT systems/processors that can process the context information (e.g. cloud computing/big data analytics) and provide the value propositions exploiting the information. Some examples of the IoT value propositions are:

·        Automation: Providing various automation services for the customers’ job/task to be done (e.g. automatically order the detergent for a laundry machine)

·        Care: Caring for customers (e.g. monitor customers’ body status and provide various health care services; control customer’s home cooling and heating/lighting system for energy savings; home security system for safe and comfortable home environments )

·        Entertainment: Providing fun to customers (e.g. AV systems, virtual reality games)

The IoT patent system can include the system integration subsystem that integrate and manage the functionality of each subsystem as a whole.

Each disclosures of more than 50 key patents for the IoT Smart Home applications selected from the review are divided into the IoT patent subsystems, and then, counted the numbers of patents for each value propositions (automation, care, entertainment), context (position/movement, environment/situation, job/task, and tools (mobile/wearable devices, IoT specific devices, appliances).

Following figure shows the Activity Index vs. value propositions strategic map for Apple, Google, and Samsung. The size of the circle represents the total number of the patents for each value proposition. Activity Index is a measure of a company’s relative innovation activities in a specific innovation field: Activity Index = share of a specific innovation sub-class in a company/share of a company’s patent in total patents, where share of a specific innovation sub-class in a company = patents (innovation sub-class)/patents (a company) and share of a company’s patent in total patents = patents (a company)/patents (total company).

The map shows Google’s select and focus strategy for providing the care value proposition. The map shows that Apple is most active in the automation value proposition innovation compare to Samsung and Google, even if Apple’s number of patent applications is smaller than that of Google and Samsung.

Following figure shows the Activity Index vs. tools/context for the value propositions strategic map for Apple, Google, and Samsung. The size of the circle represents the total number of the patents for each tools/context.

The map shows that Apple is not active in the innovation of IoT specific devices/systems for providing the IoT Smart Home value propositions (indicates that Apple’s HomeKit Platform was developed by a third party?).

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Forecasting & Strategy Development for Post-Smartphone (Wearables & IoT Devices) Patent Wars

As the smartphone market matured, many companies are looking for the post-smartphone market that can generate new revenues. Many market researchers expect that the interconnected IoT (Internet of Things) devices will create a new market that will result in more than $1 trillion in value added to the global economy within 10 years. In the short term, wearable computing devices are expected to form an early IoT market by interconnecting body-sensing devices and providing useful personal services including healthcare.

As we have seen in the smartphone market development, it is expected that the super-competition to preoccupy the leadership in the lucrative IoT market can lead to another round of patent wars. The post-smartphone patent wars, however, will be more extensive because of more extensive participation of players across several different industries. The post-smartphone patent wars will also be more complex because of the recent rapid change in legal environment and the learning curve from the smartphone patent wars. Therefore, more advanced and sophisticated patent strategy is required to prepare for the upcoming post-smartphone patent wars.

To confirm the upcoming post-smartphone patent wars, we researched current status of patent disputes regarding wearable computing devices and IoT devices (http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/postsmartphone-wearables-iot-devices-patent-wars-current-status) and several evidences of the expansion indications of the post-smartphone patent wars (http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/postsmartphone-wearables-iot-devices-patent-wars-indicators-of-expansion). Then, we developed a strategic forecasting methodology to predict the possible emerging development of the post-smartphone patent wars ( http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/postsmartphone-wearables-iot-devices-patent-wars-strategic-forecasting-methodology). Finally, we developed a strategic planning methodology to prepare for the emerging post-smartphone patent wars (http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/postsmartphone-wearables-iot-devices-patent-wars-strategy-development).

TechIPm’s patent strategy development methodology is the key to prepare for emerging patent wars regarding wearable computing devices and IoT (Internet of Things) devices.

For more information, please contact

Alex G. Lee, PhD, JD, CLP

Principal IP Strategist

TechIPm, LLC 

alexglee@techipm.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgeunholee

TechIPm, LLC is a research and consulting company specializing in strategy for emerging technology and intellectual property management & monetization. TechIPm, LLC consulted diverse industry players (fortune 500 companies, patent monetization firms, law firms, investment firms, research institutions, universities) in the field of electronics, IT and telecommunications.

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미국 보스턴에 위치한 전자/정보통신/사물인터넷 전문 특허전략 리서치 및 컨설팅회사인 테크아이피엠(TechIPm: www.techipm.com, 대표 이근호)은 현재 진행중인 웨어러블과 사물인터넷(IoT) 관련 특허소송 사례들을 분석한 결과 포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁이 시작되었음을 확인했다며 이에 대응하는 분쟁예측 및 전략수립 시스템(방법론)을 개발 하였다고 밝혔다. 

테크아이피엠이 조사한 최근 특허소송 사례들을 보면, 특허괴물 ‘Masa LLC’은 애플워치가 그들의 특허를 침해하였다고 소송을 제기하였고 최근 상장에 성공한 웨어러블 기기 전문회사인 핏비트(Fitbit)는 경쟁사인 조본(Jawbone)으로부터 특허소송을 당하였다. 

그리고 구글(Google)에 인수된 스마트홈 기기 전문업체인 네스트(Nest Lab)의 피소 등 다수의 사례들이 있다. 또한 웨어러블과 사물인터넷 분야의 활발한 M&A, 증가하는 특허출원 및 매입, 특허괴물들의 심상치 않은 동향 등 전쟁확산의 전조적 증거들을 확인하였다. 최근 특허분쟁과 관련한 자세한 내용은 아래 사이트(http://goo.gl/niXuqV)에서 확인할 수 있다. 

테크아이피엠 이근호(미국명 Alex G. Lee) 대표는 “스마트폰 시장이 성숙되고 포화되어 감에 따라 많은 회사들이 차세대 먹거리를 찾고 있는 시점에서 웨어러블과 사물인터넷(IoT)이 포스트 스마트폰 수익엔진으로 주목을 받고 있다. 따라서 스마트폰 시장의 성장과정에서 경험했듯이 새로운 시장에서의 주도권을 선점하려는 치열한 경쟁에 기인한 또 다른 특허 전쟁이 예상되고 있다. 하지만 이번 전쟁은 다수의 이종산업간의 충돌과 급변하는 법률환경 때문에 스마트폰 특허전쟁보다 더 확대되고 복잡할 것으로 예상되고 있다”며 “다가오는 포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁을 대비하기 위하여 좀더 발전되고 정교한 특허전략이 요구되고 있다”고 말했다. 

포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁에 대비하여 테크아이피엠에서는 포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁의 전개양상을 예측할 수 있는 방법을 고안하였고 예측된 특허전쟁의 전개양상에 대응한 특허전략 기획방법을 개발하였다. 포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁의 전개양상은 특허 마이닝 기법과 시장정보 빅데이터 분석을 미래예측 시나리오 개발과 연계하여 예측할 수 있고 대응전략은 예측된 특허전쟁의 시나리오에 따른 전략옵션에 따라 마련할 수 있음을 제시하였다. 

포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁과 그에 대응한 전략기획 리서치 및 컨설팅에 대한 자세한 내용은 테크아이피엠 이근호대표(alexglee@techipm.com)에게 문의하면 된다. 

이근호 대표(https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgeunholee)는 미국 서픽 대학 로스쿨에서 지식재산법을 전공하였고 존스홉킨스 대학에서 물리학박사를 받았다. 미국변리사 및 공인라이센싱전문가(CLP)로 뉴욕주 변호사 시험에 합격 하였다. 현재 MIT 경영대학원 경영자 과정에서 혁신과 전략분야를 공부하고 있고 전자/정보통신/사물인터넷 분야의 특허 및 신기술 평가/수익화 전략/경영전략 전문가이다. 

테크아이피엠 소개 
테크아이피엠(TechIPm, LLC)은 2009년 설립된 신기술 및 지식재산 평가 및 수익화 전략 전문 리서치 및 컨설팅회사이다. 미국 보스턴에 본사를 두고 있으며 표준특허 분석, 특허 매입/투자관련 평가, 특허 소송전략, 특허 수익화를 위한 특허개발 및 전략에 대한 서비스를 미국은 물론 한국/대만/일본/프랑스의 다양한 고객들(회사/연구소/대학/로펌)에게 제공하고 있다.


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4G LTE, 5G M2M/IoT, Smartphone NFC Patents for Standards & Applications Data 1Q 2015

TechIPm (http://www.techipm.com) has announced the addition of the "4G LTE Patents for Standards Data 1Q 2015," "M2M & D2D Patents for IoT Data 1Q 2015," and "NFC Patents for Standards & Applications Data 1Q 2015" to its offering.

TechIPm’s patents research data are very useful information for the patent licensing royalty & litigation damage estimation, patent investment feasibility analysis, competitive intelligence, R&D planning and strategic patent development.

4G LTE Patents for Standards Data 1Q 2015 is a custom research based on 4G LTE patents analysis for the market leaders among LTE UE (cellular phones, smart phones, PDAs, mobile PCs, etc.) and base station (eNB) product manufactures and innovators. To evaluate the essentiality of a patent for the LTE-Advanced standard, patent disclosures in claims and detail description for each 4G LTE related patent are compared to the final versions of the 3GPP Release 10 technical specifications for the LTE RAN (Radio Access Network). Assignee name, patent number (USPTO & EPO Families hyperlinked to Google Patent), standard specifications series & section number, technology category, and essentiality level for more than 1600 issued patents are provided in the data.

For more information visit http://www.techipm.com/alexdb/4G%20LTE%20Patents%20for%20Standards%20Data%201Q%202015_Intro.pdf

M2M & D2D communication technologies are the key enablers for emerging IoT (Internet of Things) applications and considered as the essential components of 5G mobile communication. M2M & D2D Patents for IoT Data 1Q 2015 is a custom research based on patents analysis for the market leaders among M2M & D2D product manufactures and service providers. Patent disclosures in claims and detail description for each patent are analyzed as to whether the contents are within the scope of key technologies for M2M (e.g. low power design & management) and D2D (e.g. discovery process) communications.  Assignee name, patent/publication number, hyperlink to Google Patent technology category, title, abstract, and application date for more than 1300 patent applications are provided in the data.

For more information visit http://www.techipm.com/alexdb/M2M%20&%20D2D%20Patents%20for%20IoT%20Data%201Q%202015_Intro.pdf

NFC Patents for Standards & Applications Data 1Q 2015 is a custom research based on NFC related patents analysis for the market leaders among NFC product manufactures and service providers. NFC patents are classified by industry standard for NFC technology (ISO and NFC Forum) and major NFC applications. Assignee name, patent number (USPTO & EPO Families hyperlinked to Google Patent), applications, and standard specifications series & section number for more than 600 issued patents are provided in the data.

For more information visit

http://www.techipm.com/alexdb/NFC%20Patents%20for%20Standards%20&%20Applications%20Data%201Q%202015_Intro.pdf

Contacts

Alex G. Lee, Principal

TechIPm, LLC

alexglee@techipm.com

4G LTE Patents for Standard Innovativeness Ranking

To evaluate the innovativeness of patents for 4G LTE standard regarding UE (cellular phones, smart phones, PDAs, mobile PCs, etc.) and base station (eNBs, Femtocells, Relays) products, more than 2000 4G LTE standard related patents that are issued in the USPTO as of Dec. 31, 2014 are reviewed.  TechIPm, LLC’s 4G LTE patents for standard research identified total of 1600 patents that are related to the LTE-Advanced standard.

To evaluate the essentiality of a patent for the LTE-Advanced standard, patent disclosures in claims and detail description for each 4G LTE related patent are compared to the final versions of the 3GPP Release 10 technical specifications for the LTE RAN (Radio Access Network). The evaluated patents are classified according to the level of essentiality that is specified by the Essentiality Index (EI):

E1 : Patent disclosure is weakly related to LTE technical specifications

E2 : Patent disclosure is partially related to LTE technical specifications

E3 : Patent disclosure is related to LTE technical specifications overall

E4 : Patent disclosure is strongly related to LTE technical specifications

To be a potential essential patent candidate, EI should be E3 or E4.

Ranking for the innovativeness of each 4G LTE standard patents assignee is evaluated by the number of patents weighted by the quality factor (EI). Among 35 IPR shareholders, LG is the leader followed by Samsung, Qualcomm, Google (Motorola), Ericsson, Nokia, Apple, InterDigital, BlackBerry, and Panasonic.

For more information, please contact Alex Lee at alexglee@techipm.com .

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Patent Evaluation Services for Investment Professionals

Investment professionals are increasingly required to understand the true value of patents as the patents became an important investment asset class, and thus, play a significant role in investment decision making processes: investment professionals are frequently involved in patent valuation during M&A activity, buying and selling patents for bankruptcy cases, patent secured debt financing deals, sale & license-back transactions, securitizations using patent as the underlying asset, (long or short) stock investment  for IP based business entities etc. To understand the true value of patents, however, accurate evaluation of patents under investment consideration is need. Therefore, accurate evaluation of patents became the essential part for investment professionals to figure out feasibility of investment involving patents.

To evaluate patents accurately, and thus, to get an accurate read on any investment opportunities, legal expertise in additional to technical and business expertise are required due to legal rights nature of patents. Therefore, involvement of expert with the technical, business, and legal expertise is crucial to evaluate patents accurately, and thus, to understand the true value of patents. TechIPm LLC provides the expert patent evaluation services for investment professionals exploiting the technical, business, and legal expertise and many years of experience in evaluating more than ten thousand patents relating to over hundred million dollars of investments in patent investments.

Step 1: High Level Evaluation

Project Scope

A client’s patents are reviewed to provide overall qualities and investment values in alignment with client’s investment goal.

Deliverables

Excel file for related applications/products/services/markets, related standards, discoverability of potential licensee (Infringer), revenue generation potential etc.

 Step 2: Deep Dive Evaluation

Project Scope

Upon client’s request, selected patents or patent portfolio(s) are analyzed utilizing well known valuation methods (e.g. income, market, cost method) in detail to provide ROI based on the high level evaluation.

Deliverables

Written valuation report

TechIPm’s technology expertise includes:

Mobile Computing & Wireless Communications Technology: LTE, CDMA (CDMA 2000, WCDMA, HSPA), WLAN, WPAN, RFID, NFC, WSN, Cognitive Radio/SDR, Optical Wireless, Mobile TV, Mobile Cloud Computing, RF MEMS, RFIC etc.

Smartphone Applications: Biometrics, Location Base Services/Indoor Navigations, Mobile Payments, Augmented Reality, Wireless/Mobile UI, IoT (Internet of Things) applications etc.

Green ICT: M2M, Smart Grids, Green Wireless Technologies, Electric Cars etc.

Bio & Medical IT: Mobile Healthcare (IEEE 11073 PHD, WBAN), Biometrics, Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) etc.

For more information, please contact Dr. Alex G. Lee at alexglee@techipm.com

Strategic Patent Prosecution Consulting Services of TechIPm LLC

Well tailored value creation methodology combined with patent prosecution strategy can develop new patent portfolios for maximum ROI from existing patents. Many patent applications and newly issued patents can be further developed for creating new values by amending and creating claims and generating family patents to encompass emerging technology and products/services trends, market demands, and strategic exploitation goals (e.g. cross-licensing, monetization etc.).

Step 1: Portfolio Review & Candidates Selection

Project Scope

A client’s patents are reviewed and categorized as standard relevant and application specific patents. The categorized patents are evaluated to select good candidates for value creation.

Deliverables

Excel file for the relevant standards (e.g. 802.11, 3GPP LTE etc.) and applications (e.g. mobile health care, smart home etc.) and list of candidates for value creation.

Step 2: Analysis for Selected Candidates

Project Scope for Standard Relevant Patents

The selected patents are further analyzed to find candidates for standard essential patents (SEPs) and development as SEPs with respect to the specific standards. For the SEPs candidates, the claim-standard specification mapping is performed to generate EoU claim charts. For the development candidates as SEPs, the model claims are constructed which can make a candidate as a SEP with respect to a specific standard. Additional claims are constructed to capture the unclaimed embodiments in the candidates’ detail descriptions.

Deliverables

EoU claim charts for the SEPs candidates and model claim charts for the development candidates as SEPs. Suggested claims that can capture the unclaimed embodiments.

Project Scope for Application Specific Patents

The selected patents are further analyzed to find candidates for commercial essential patents (essential for commercial product/service implementation), patents for market platforms (dominant designs), and patents for disruptive technologies (for future market generation potential). Existing claims are amended and additional claims are constructed to capture the unclaimed embodiments in the candidates’ detail descriptions to reinforce the protectability (against invalidation), enforceability (against potential infringement), and marketability (for monetization, new products/services etc.) 

Deliverables

Report for brief explanations regarding candidates for commercial essential patents, patents for market platforms, patents for disruptive technologies. Amended claims and suggested claims that can create new values.

Step 3: Strategic Prosecution

In collaboration with engineers, business professionals, in-house counsels, and outside prosecution counsels, the optimal prosecution strategy is developed, final claims and methods of prosecution (continuation, divisional, reissue etc.) are devised, and all prosecution activities are managed and carried out.

Deliverables

Coordination of prosecution processes.

TechIPm’s technology expertise includes:

Mobile Computing & Wireless Communications Technology: LTE, CDMA (CDMA 2000, WCDMA, HSPA), WLAN, WPAN, RFID, NFC, WSN, Cognitive Radio/SDR, Optical Wireless, Mobile TV, Mobile Cloud Computing, RF MEMS, RFIC etc.

Smartphone Applications: Biometrics, Location Base Services/Indoor Navigations, Mobile Payments, Augmented Reality, Wireless/Mobile UI, IoT (Internet of Things) applications etc.

Green ICT: M2M, Smart Grids, Green Wireless Technologies, Electric Cars etc.

Bio & Medical IT: Mobile Healthcare (IEEE 11073 PHD, WBAN), Biometrics, Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) etc.

For more information, please contact Dr. Alex G. Lee at alexglee@techipm.com

A Korean company, Global Open Study, launched a web-based cloud sourcing patent prior art search solutions.

Global Open Study Co., Ltd. (GOS) has developed, for the first time in S. Korea, a web-based cloud sourcing patent prior art search solutions. GOS provides more precise and cost saving prior art search services for patent patentabiliy and validity based on the solutions.

Research projects for prior art search are publicly available on the web. The research projects can be performed by any registered researchers for the compensation to the winner. Currently, many talented professionals are participated as registered researchers. Confidential research projects can also be performed by participating in a investigation team. GOS is continuously developing many investigation methods to perform research projects more efficiently and effectively.

For more information, please visit GOS's website (www.gopenstudy.com).

Samsung’s US patent acquisition firm has new shareholders

According to Seoul Economic Daily in S. Korea, Samsung Display’s wholly owned US patent acquisition company, IKT (Intellectual Keystone Technology LLC), recently sold total of 72% of its shares to several companies including some subsides of Samsung Group and foreign firms. Industry experts expressed that the efforts of inviting various investors indicate Samsung’s intention of full-scale development of global patent business company.

Samsung formed IKT in Washington DC on May of 2013 with the initial investment of $25 M for the 100 % share of IKT.  IKT’s main role is to acquire high quality patents for Samsung’s strategic patent management. As the first task, IKT closed a deal with Seiko-Epson in Japan for a small number of patents related to LCD equipments. Samsung is going to acquire patents aggressively to protect itself from competitors’ challenge through patent lawsuit. Samsung also expressed its intention of investment to start-ups that hold patent portfolios which are necessary to its global business leadership.

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A Microsoft’s $2 billion per year money making patent is survived

Motorola failed to invalidate a Microsoft’s patent that Microsoft licensed it to more than 80% of Android smartphones sold in the U.S. and generated $2 billion per year revenue.  Recently, the CAFC confirmed the ITC’s determination that Microsoft’s US6370566 is valid and Motorola’s Android smartphones infringe it.

The patent at issue is US6370566 (Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device). It relates to generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device by providing the user with the ability to schedule a meeting request from the mobile device itself. It covers Microsoft’s ActiveSync software to synchronize calendars among computers. It is a part of patents (US5664133; US5758352 (Recently, the Federal Patent Court of Germany invalidated EP0618540 that its US version, US5758352, is also invalidate by the ITC); US6370566; US6578054; US6826762; US6909910; US7644376) that the licensing of the patents to Android smartphone OEMs including Samsung, LG, HTC might generated $2 billion per year royalty revenue (ref. http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-earns-2-billion-per-year-from-android-patent-royalties-2013-11).

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Big Data for Patents

According to Wikipedia, ‘big dat is the term for a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications.’ (Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data)

Followings are the links for recent trends of exploiting big data techniques for patents.

1. Big data for patent analysis

http://insights.wired.com/profiles/blogs/big-data-for-patents-deriving-novel-insights-from-publicly#axzz2mhTdjrqh

http://www.ambercite.com/index.php/amber/entry/the-challenges-of-big-data-in-patent-analysis

http://www.searchtechnologies.com/patent-search-case-study.html

2. Big data for patent licensing

http://patentproperties.com/patentlicensing/

3. Big data for patent prosecution

http://gigaom.com/2012/03/11/can-big-data-fix-a-broken-system-for-software-patents/

http://www.patentcore.com/tag/big-data/

http://civsourceonline.com/2013/04/25/us-patent-office-embraces-big-data/

4. Big data for patent litigation

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=6655836

http://blogs.sap.com/innovation/big-data/big-data-law-start-disrupting-patent-litigation-0932582

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