IPVision in the News

In addition to the core Technology Review briefing, we provide a supplemental analysis of key IP positions in the field for 20 companies deserving attention of corporate leadership, experts, and technology investors.

Download the free: Patent Perspectives: On Security supplemental report.

In addition, given their critical role in the industry, IPVision provides additional insights into the patent competition between Symantec and McAfee.This report includes IPVision's patent portfolio assessments of 20 companies to watch, including such firms as Google, Facebook, Verdasys, Symantec, and McAFee. Highly rated patent positions include both public and private firms -- while several key innovators score poorly. A potentially troubling signal for their investors and management.

The report provides "must read" insights and provokes questions for leaders in the field as they grapple with day to day decisions related to their R&D and innovation investments and consider corporate strategy and patent risk profiles.  For example, how did Symantec create its position relative to McAfee, or how what are Google and Facebook management doing with their "patent levers" within their broader corporate strategy?

Download the report and let us know your thoughts.

On June 2, 2010, the Lemelson-MIT Program announced that Carolyn Bertozzi of the UC-Berkeley Department of Chemistry is the 2010 Winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.

This year's evaluation process incorporated structured discussions of the patents held by each nominee. IPVision supported the process by contributing patent analysis reports on the nominees' patents.

Learn more about Carolyn Bertozzi's patents and the patent analysis supplied by IPVision to the Lemelson-MIT Program in the IPVisions blog.  

Given the societal benefits gained through experimentation, inventive activity, innovation and disclosure incented through the patenting system, the Lemelson-MIT Program authorized IPVision to release its report to the public. The patent analysis report is available for download here. 

Patent metrics and IP strategy for early-stage and growth stage companies are the topics of discussion on May 21st at a panel moderated by IPVision's Alex Butler during the upcoming Licensing Executives Society (LES) Spring Meeting in Boston on May 21.

The panel will include multiple perspectives of how serial entrepreneurs, investors, and management assess when and how to craft their IP strategies and the signals that those strategies provide to future results. IPVision's published article on the correlation between high quality patent positions and successful exit in Intellectual Asset Management Magazine (as a proxy for investment success) provides additional information on how IP can provide a leading indicator of management's ability to deliver value.

Investors and technology experts intuitively 'know' that developing a proactive IP strategy and efficiently and cost-effectively understanding the patent landscape within their industry inform critical decisions across a spectrum of activities, including considering investments, alliance discussions and the important choices of what to patent, or disclose, as they commercialize technologies.

Moving from this known need to demonstrably incorporating an IP perspective into product development, innovation processes, and crafting protected freedom to operate is a critical skill. Developing and observing well-positioned, high-quality IP positions is one measurable indicator of this skill.

Increasingly, management and investors are leveraging key indicators and patent benchmarks of other successful firms and past investments, to help inform strategies and tactics. If used appropriately, these same measurements can provide important signals to how successfully companies and management teams are including an understanding of intellectual property rights within their business processes.

The LES Spring Meeting (http://lesusacanada.org) focuses upon the topics of innovation, entrepreneurship and technology commercialization and will bring together more than 400 technology executives, intellectual property experts and technology transfer leaders.

Patent landscape analysis by IPVision contributes to understanding role of patent rights in investment and development of microprocessor and multicore processor technologies.

IPVision patent analysis supports Technology Review (May/June 2010) briefing on microprocessors.

The full Technology Review briefing contents include:

• Technology Overview: Designing for Mobility
• Companies to Watch 
• Industry Challenges: The High Cost of Upholding Moore's Law
• Case Study: Printing a Path to Success
• Over the Horizon: Computing Beyond Silicon
• China: A New Processor for a New Market
• Intellectual Property: Multicore Patents
• Timeline: March of the Machines
• Market Watch: Mobile chips threaten high-performance manufacturers
• Research to Watch: Multicore processors create software headache

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In the article, Joe Hadzima, Bruce Bockmann and Alex Butler of the IPVision leadership team provide findings on how evidence-based approaches to intellectual property decisions can generate immediate and lasting value for early-stage and growth companies and their investors.

In the March/April Issue of IAM Magazine, Alex Butler and Joseph Hadzima provide perspectives to the author, Joe Jennings, on how organizations can respond to near-term economic pressures and identify IP strategies to drive corporate performance in 2010 and beyond.

The article is available to subscribers of IAM Magazine.

IPVision provided a briefing on the crucial linkage between innovation, entrepreneurship and corporate value for friends and members of the National Knowledge & Intellectual Property Management Taskforce.

The presentation was lead by Joseph Hadzima, of IPVision and Senior Faculty Member of the Sloan School of Management, and Alexander Butler, of IPVision.

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Joseph Hadzima, Esq., CEO of IPVision and a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, said "having a recognized IP leader such as Alex join IPVision from Thomson Reuters supports our strategy of transforming the commodity of IP data and content into qualified information, actionable knowledge and wisdom."

"The IPVision team's unique approach through the firm's project services and the IPVision analytics platform provides a much-needed advance to how business, advisors and counsel address business and legal challenges related to IP rights" said Alex Butler. "Leveraging historical ties to MIT has equipped IPVision with unmatched capabilities, moving far beyond traditional providers focus on data and content - I am excited about the feedback we have received regarding our approach and look forward to helping IPVision and its customers address the critical challenge of integrating intellectual property and business processes and strategies."

IPVision's project services and hosted analytics platform deliver critical business insights through proprietary and patented algorithms and expert systems. IPVision helps organizations integrate intellectual property into critical business processes and speed their responses to threats and opportunities across the entire value chain.

"We use IPVision because it helps us to develop and display a strategic vision of a client's patent portfolio while also providing insight into strengths and weaknesses of our client's patents and those of its competitors," indicated Bruce Sunstein, Esq., partner and co-founder of the Bromberg & Sunstein LLP intellectual property firm. "IPVision's unique approach provides a competitive advantage in portfolio development, acquisitions, litigation, and business strategy."

"The introduction of our Venture-backed firm IP Analysis offering is a major milestone for IPVision. No other firm provides this ability to mine, track, and deeply analyze venture-backed IP positions," indicated Alex Butler.

"Venture-backed company IP analysis broadens IPVision's leading support for corporate IP owners, their counsel and technical experts and fills a gap left by traditional content, search, and IP tools providers." Joe Hadzima expanded "the commitment of IPVision to address core challenges to integrating business and IP strategy is driven by customer executives and experts.

IP analysis of venture funded companies is a strong example of IPVision's leadership in integrating the perspectives of businesses, legal counsel, venture capital and financial experts."

Patent strategy and analytics firm IPVision expands the free patent search and analytics software platform see-the-forest.com. See-the-forest provides examples of how patent mapping and patent analytics provide value to business and legal experts.

New functionality provides an easy to use, secure, online application of IPVision's patented technologies and approach to analyzing patents and providing business perspectives of these highly valuable legal rights.