Autumn 2020

The licensing of patents that dominates the mobile sector is now being used across a far wider range of industries. This is providing rights holders and implementers with plenty of opportunities, but also many challenges.

January 2020

The study was officially commissioned by the German BMWi – Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

June 2017

The increasing integration of information and communication technologies in vehicles is creating new challenges for licensing patents in general and for negotiating royalty payments for standard-essential patents in particular.

Intelligente IP Analysen in einem Tool

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Standardized technologies such as LTE, WiFi, NFC, RFID or Bluetooth will strongly contribute to the next technological revolution of the Internet of Things (IoT). In this regard standard-essential patents (SEPs) are increasingly the subject of lively debates among market observers, policy makers and regulatory institutions. Yet little is known about the overall number truly standard essential patents declared in the numerous standard setting organizations (SSOs). In this report all publically available worldwide declared SEPs are analyzed to provide a more transparent understanding on the technological concentration and the regional application of SEPs, an overview of global SEP owners as well as an analysis on activities connected to patent licensing, patent trade, patent litigation and patent essentiality. The objective is thereby to better assess the needs and feasibility of more informative patent declarations.

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IPlytics maintains a database with over 300,000 standard essential patents (SEPs) declared at the major standard setting organizations (SSOs) such as ETSI, IEEE, ISO, IEC, CEN, ANSI, TIA, ITU-T, ITU-R, IETF, W3C and others. IPlytics ranks SEP portfolios per company by patent indicators such as patent market coverage, patent value or years until patent expiration. IPlytics further provides additional information on over 900 SSOs, over 1,5 million standard documents and approximately 64 standard related patent pools.

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Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP), prepared by the Secretariat with contributions from Mr. Knut Blind, Professor, Berlin University of Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management, and Chair of Innovation Economics, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS Public Innovation, Berlin, Germany, and his colleagues at the Berlin University of Technology (2014)

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European Commission and Experts: Bekkers, R. , Birkman, L., Canoy, M., de Bas, P. Lemstra, W. , Ménière, Y. , Baron, J., Pohlmann Sainz, I., van Gorp, N. , Voogt, B., Zeldenrust, R., Nomaler, N., , T., Martinelli, A. (2014)

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The European Commission (DG Enterprise & Industry) by Knut Blind (Coordinator), Rudi Bekkers, Tim Pohlmann, Yann Dietrich, Eric Iversen, Florian Köhler, Benoît Müller, Stein Smeets, Jurgen Verweijen, April 2011

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IPlytics maintains a database with over 300,000 standard essential patents (SEPs) declared at the major standard setting organizations (SSOs) such as ETSI, IEEE, ISO, IEC, CEN, ANSI, TIA, ITU-T, ITU-R, IETF, W3C and others. IPlytics ranks SEP portfolios per company by patent indicators such as patent market coverage, patent value or years until patent expiration. IPlytics further provides additional information on over 900 SSOs, over 1,5 million standard documents and approximately 64 standard related patent pools.

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An analysis on the rate and direction of technological progress of standards subject to declared standard-essential patents (SEP).
Justus Baron, Tim Pohlmann, Knut Blind, 2016

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Justus Baron and Tim Pohlmann, September 2015

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Yann Meniere, Yann Dietrich, Tim Pohlmann et. al., 2015

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An empirical study that tests the influence of owning SEPs on a firm’s financial performance.
Knut Blind, Peter Neuhäusler, Tim Pohlmann, 2015

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Justus Baron, Yann Meniere, Tim Pohlmann, 2014

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Tim Pohlmann, 2014

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Knut Blind, Tim Pohlmann, September 2013

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Justus Baron and Tim Pohlmann, August 2015

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Justus Baron and Tim Pohlmann, August 2013

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Tim Pohlmann and Knut Blind in: PIK – Practice of Information Retrieval and Communication. Band 37, Issue 3, pp. 189–195, ISSN (Online) 1865-8342, ISSN (Print) 0930-5157, DOI: 10.1515/pik-2014-0016, September 2014.

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Knut Blind and Tim Pohlmann in: les Nouvelles, pages 177-181, September 2013.

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Tim Pohlmann and Marieke Opitz: In: R&D Management, Volume 43, Issue 2, pages 103–120, March 2013.

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German economy magazine Wirtschaftswoche publishes a statistic on patenting strategies of startup unicorns.
October 2015

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Germany’s biggest start up magazine published an article on IPltyics in the course of their seed funding round.
October 2015

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German Handelsblatt features an article on IPlytics answering questions on current patent litigations.

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Interview with CEO Dr. Tim Pohlmann: How the idea of IPlytics Platform came about.

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German Handelsblatt features portraits on influential economists: Berlin scientist Knut Blind explains why technical standards are anything but boring.

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In this interview Dr. Tim Pohlmann outlines background information on the interplay of patents and standards.

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According to Pohlmann, IPlytics analyses provide an accurate management of intellectual property rights so that firms are able “to focus their R&D expenditures, save costs and leverage their IPRs.” In other words, private sector players assess whether an innovation is free of third parties’ intellectual property rights strategically.

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For October (2013) IPlytics Platform is elected project of the month by Transfer-Allianz.

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Press Release and clippings for the distinction of IPlytics in the course of „IKT Innovativ“, September 2013

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Berlin, June 2015. Car-2-X: Die Digitale Revolution geht auf die Straße Die Entwicklung der Kommunikation zwischen Fahrzeugen und deren Umgebung ist eine der spannendsten Entwicklungen und treibende Kraft in der Vernetzung zwischen Automobil- und Informationstechnologiebranche. Das kontinuierliche Zusammenwachsen beider Branchen wird Experten zufolge den Straßenverkehr der Zukunft maßgeblich prägen. Sowohl übergeordnete Ziele, wie die Verringerung der Umweltverschmutzung, die Erhöhung der Verkehrssicherheit und die Steigerung der Verkehrseffizienz, als auch individuelle Bedürfnisse, wie die Erhöhung des Reisekomforts, werden nachhaltig beeinflusst.

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November 26th, 2014, IP Service World Munich, Germany.

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October 30th, 2014, Standards Your Innovation Bridge Conference, Brussels, Belgium.

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April 4th, 2014, Hannover, Germany.