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Google's revolutionary heads-up display glasses have been on the cards for some time now but last week Google announced that they are looking for people to help trial Google Glass ahead of their official launch, adding fire to the media frenzy. With IP being at the heart of the technology and their…

We recently came up with a patent analysis report on Near Field Communications (NFC) technology that is seeing rapid adoption among mobile vendors. (except Apple perhaps)

Among different insights we gathered from analysis of the patents and applications filed on NFC, some of the notable ones are:

• Research in Motion has aggressively built a large portfolio of patents and applications over NFC in the last 3 years
• Apple hasn’t focused much on NFC and so its…

Blogpost by Donal O'Connell

Chawton Innovation Services

Interoperability standards

Interoperability refers to the ability of diverse systems to work together or…

It has been a while since I did any patent research of any kind. Then I had one of those ideas running through my head. Why not map out an industry in a given city, based on their innovation factor (which is a proprietary, qualitative algorithm I'm not going to share :P) and the company/institute's age? It makes an interesting chart.... enjoy:

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Patent war in smartphone industry - everybody is suing everybody else. Here is a collection of visualizations of patent war in mobile industry.

Smartphone patent suits

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The collection of Japanese patent applications on TotalPatent, has recently been completed with machine translation for titles, abstracts, descriptions and claims. The translations of the applications are available within 2 weeks of publication, in order to offer users a broader range of searching possibilities and to increase the recall immediately after publication.…

Here is quick overview about examples of some key issues regarding intellectual property financing.

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Maria Augusta Mancini "Innovation, Intellectual property and Financing"…

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3. Rule Britannia?

Bear in mind that people in other countries don’t call stuff the same things we do.  Those…

Here is a small collection of greatest patent and trademark infographics.

Android related patent lawsuits

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