Introduction On 17 December 2017 one bitcoin was worth $19,783.06. Its worth grew to this from roughly $900 in just 11 months, while ‘bitcoin’ was the second most searched term in Google’s news section that year. Although the cryptocurrency bubble has now popped, a...

A patent landscape analysis on how SEPs and FRAND will affect the auto industry Similar to the transition in the mobile phone industry from feature phones to smartphones and where business models, platforms and market participants have transformed the way that profits...

Some of the most popular movies in the past few decades or so are about AI – Terminator, War Games and The Matrix – and present it as an existential threat to mankind. But the reality is much less dramatic. The term ‘AI’, as it is used in pop culture, in fact refers...

This article is an extract of an ongoing study around patent activities in the space of IoT technologies. The analysis conducted by IPlytics intends to shed light on the potential legal risks for any IoT business in the market. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of...

The success story of 3D printing began in 1984 when Charles W Hull applied for a patent for stereolithography. In 1989 S Scott Crump of Stratasys invented fused deposition modelling, which fuses material layer by layer until a 3D object is created. This style of...

Nothing in the field of genome editing has looked to be as ground breaking as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR). While it is difficult to predict the future for a technology that is still so young, activity in the patent landscape...

A patent landscape analysis of the strongest patent holders and market trends. In the last five years, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies have seen very impressive growth rates. This article examines the patent landscape in VR and AR...