The EPO published its first European patent application, EP 000 000 1 forty years ago today (20 December 2018). The application related to a “thermal heat pump” and was filed by European Atomic Energy Community. The patent was granted on 7 January 1981. A batch […]
A study by the European Patent Office finds that the number of European patent applications related to automated driving has grown 20 times faster than other technologies in recent years. The study carried out in co-operation with the European Council for Automotive R&D reveals that […]
On June 19, 2018, the USPTO issued patent number 10 million. Historically, the ‘millionth’ patent has always celebrated the rich history and strength of the American intellectual property system, since the first U.S patent issued in 1790. Symbolizing the breadth of American invention, patent 10 […]
A true passion for patent information, boundless enthusiasm, and a deep-rooted commitment to share his knowledge with others. These are just some of the attributes that have contributed to Dr. Tsutomu Kiriyama’s success in traversing international boundaries for the sake of advancing patent information. Dr. […]
New statistics have been released by the IP5 Offices showing that more that 2.6 million patent applications were filed at the world’s five largest intellectual property offices in 2016. It was significantly noted that this is a 10.4% increase over last year. The IP5 co-operation […]
The Expanded Collaborative Search Pilot (CSP) is designed to provide the examiners with the best prior art by combining the search expertise of examiners at the USPTO and JPO or KIPO before issuing an office action in the patent application. The first phase of the […]
IP5, the world’s five largest intellectual property offices met on May 31st – June 1st 2017 in Valletta, Malta to review the achievements over the past 10 years and to decide the future direction of their initiatives. Commonly referred to as the IP5, established in […]
Long before the term ‘Big Data’ even surfaced in the patent world, a visionary figure with a curious mind committed his early career to seeing how far patent data analysis could be pushed to its limits given the technology available at the time. What is […]
The Chinese State Intellectual Property Office, SIPO, became the first office to receive over one million invention patent applications in a single year. Read on to see how statistical patent trends compare between China and the U.S. and some of the reasons why we are […]
Find out which global patent assignees occupy a place in the top-ten US rankings for most utility patents (grants) in 2015. Only one assignee dropped off the list, was it: a) Panasonic, b) Qualcomm, or c) Google ? Answer: a) Panasonic Panasonic dropped from #10 […]
