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COVID-19 Effect on Pharmaceutical Innovation
By: Sarbani Chattopadhyay, Consultant, Customer Success, LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions As the world reaches the 2-year milestone of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed remarkable developments in efforts to fight the virus. Whether in the form of...
5 Highlights from the Inaugural “Innovation Momentum” Report
Last month, we published the inaugural edition of “Innovation Momentum 2022: The Global Top 100,” a report developed to spotlight true technological contemporaries across industries. With a new, unique methodology supported by data analysis from patent analytics...
3 Reasons Companies Should Monitor Competitors’ Patent Filings
The ability to compete in the market is key to any company's survival, and many use patents to gain an upper hand. Diligent companies not only focus on their own patent filings but also track their competitors' filings to help ensure their longevity and prosperity....
The Innovation Momentum 2022 Report Reflects Critical Global Topics and Highlights the Most Innovative Regions of the World
In a brand-new intellectual property report, we’ve revealed a unique methodology capturing the Innovation Momentum of the last two years and recognizing technology companies with exceptional technological relevance for the future and those outperforming their...
Prior Art Research
Conducting prior art research before filing a patent application can have a profound influence on patent strategies and outcomes. Not only can understanding prior art help to determine whether an invention is patentable, but it can also inform how a patent application...
Patent Data Quality for Reliable Legal Opinions
Having access to accurate and complete patent data is imperative for any patent professional looking to provide exceptional service to their clients. When patent professionals provide counsel based on incomplete patent information, the reliability of their opinions...
How Patents Became a Managing Board Agenda Item at Siemens
Have you ever wondered how leading companies integrate their IP activities into the innovation process and measure the quality of their patent portfolios? Beat Weibel, chief IP counsel at Siemens, explains why he chose to change the company’s patent strategy and how...
Manage Innovation in Times of Crisis With Patent Analytics
If anything has been brought to light in recent years, it is that crises can occur at any time without warning. When caught off guard by a crisis, businesses often need to respond by tightening their budgets and being more selective of the innovation they fund. But...
Must-Have Patent Visualization Tools
It may be a cliché to say that “a picture is worth a thousand words,” but the patent data visualization tools that are now available to law firms suggest that the old saying may also be an understatement. The LexisNexis® PatentSight® innovation analytics platform...
Fuel Research and Development With Innovation Analytics
Research and development (R&D) is a crucial process for innovative businesses. It can expand a company’s industry knowledge and provide the fuel needed to recognize new opportunities that lead to valuable new products and processes. It also helps companies find...
Financial Times: “Digitization Climbs up Legal Agenda”
Have you ever wondered how leading companies integrate their IP activities into the innovation process and measure the quality of their patent portfolios? Beat Weibel, chief IP counsel at Siemens, explains why he chose to change the company’s patent strategy and how...
5 Consequences of Patent Data Errors: The Applicant Name Field
It’s the first rule of statistics: if the data behind an analysis is inaccurate, the results of the analysis will be just as inaccurate and unreliable. For patent information users, the consequences of bad data usage are huge and can range anywhere from wrongful...
Patents in De-Carbonization: Toyota Leads in Number, Samsung Ranks First in Total Strength
Which companies are the biggest contributors to the creation of a de-carbonized society? That’s an interesting, yet difficult, question to answer. In the past 20 years, 1.55 million patents worldwide were filed by approximately 350,000 companies under the...
Volvo Cars’ Electrified Future
Did you know that the first rough version of an electric car was invented in the 1830s? Yet, cars were powered by internal combustion engines until 1990, when the first hybrid electrical vehicles emerged on the market. As with any big technology, the transition...
Patent Data as an Offensive and Defensive Strategy
Companies that fully integrate the management of their patent portfolio into their business strategy are often more successful and run more effective operations. Patent attorney Paul Hylarides believes that patent managers should be given a more prominent role in the...
How Skai Analytics Uses Patent Data to Find Market Trends Early
Skai Analytics develops a data tool for companies that are looking for profound insights on the latest market trends. LexisNexis’ raw patent data plays a crucial role in the powerful, predictive analyses they make. “Patent data is one of the most important Skai to...
Patent Asset Index™ data from PatentSight will now be included as a basis for DDW Die Deutsche Wirtschaft Rankings
We are proud to announce that the DDW Die Deutsche Wirtschaft is integrating data provided by PatentSight to their DDW Rankings. The Patent Asset Index™ will now be one of the top 26 highest weighted indicators and criterion forming the DDW index, for DDW...
France Brevets: Future-proofing the French tech industry with the help of an advanced patent analytics solution
The public-private company France Brevets supports French startups in building a strong patent portfolio. In order to anticipate the latest technological developments, they use the LexisNexis® PatentSight® solution. “As a company with an innovative idea, the only way...
Monitor Patent Applications and Portfolios From All Angles
A lot of time and energy is spent on patent monitoring. From monitoring for patent prosecution updates to monitoring the relative strength of patent portfolios over time, staying consistently up to date gives patent practitioners the power to keep their patent...
Scientific Research and Patent Data Correlations: The innovation accelerator that we have all been looking for
By Matthijs van der Pol and Jorda Zuurendonk George Tsatsaronis is vice -president of data scientific research content operations at Elsevier®. In his vision, patent data and scientific research are two sides of the same coin. If these two disciplines are combined in...
Using the Patent Asset Index™ for Company Portfolio Evaluations
Company portfolio evaluations can inform key business decisions in a variety of ways, but the task of analyzing a patent portfolio is not as simple as it seems. In addition to considering straightforward, objective patent portfolio information, such as the total...
IP Landscape for Machine Learning Patents
What is an IP Landscape?An intellectual property landscape is a thorough overview of current patents and practices in any technical space. By providing references, documentation, and a holistic view, an IP landscape can show potential for legal validity and inform...
Uncovering Cost Savings in Your Portfolio Through Advanced Patent Analytics
The beauty of patents is that they give patent owners an opportunity to prosper from their inventions, and reward them for their hard work and contributions to the world. Although patents fuel innovation and are often lucrative for patent holders, there are times when...
5 Ways to Use Patent Data Analytics to Boost Business Development
In today’s increasingly competitive legal industry, intellectual property attorneys face challenges from all sides. Small and medium-sized boutique IP firms may battle for market share against the IP giants, while big law firms may struggle to contain costs and...
Four Ways to Respond When Monitoring Patent Applications
There is a lot to be gained from a little surveillance. In the patent prosecution world, surveillance means monitoring patent applications of both your own patent applications and applications filed by others so that you can better plan your next actions. Having...
Patent Monitoring: Five Enticing Benefits of Automation
The importance of active patent monitoring cannot be stressed enough. Receiving critical information as early as possible affords patent applicants ample time to develop and implement patent prosecution strategies. Monitoring helps to keep an eye on competition, and...
Defensive Prosecution Monitoring with LexisNexis® PAIR Watch
Sports enthusiasts know that defense wins championships, but it is no less critical when it comes to business. Patent protection plays an essential role in any business's defensive strategy by preventing its competitors from making, using, or selling the valuable...
Maintaining Healthy Patent Portfolios
How healthy is your company's patent portfolio? Many large companies take a shotgun approach to patent prosecution - relying on numerous patent applications and sheer force to take each patent application from filing to grant. However, with so many applications in the...
Are You Wasting Too Much Money on Extension Fees?
Do you know how much money your firm or in-house department is spending on fees for filing extensions? Whatever the amount, it is likely too much— most extension fees can be wholly prevented through smart, data-driven organizational methods. By utilizing legal...