How good is a patent?
This is of course a highly subjective question, affected by many different factors such as who is asking the question, how legally valid the patent is, etc etc.
Nonetheless sometimes objective numbers are wanted. For this reason Ambercite developed the predictive metric Amberscore...
Read MoreApple have just been granted US patent 9504170 for a phone with a flexible display device, which is attracting a bit of press.
Read MoreSince the release of the more recent product Cluster Searching, the earlier visual based patent searching product AmberScope has taken a bit of a back seat. Cluster Searching is a very easy product and learn and use, and ideal for quickly identifying the most similar products to a good set of starting patents.
Read MoreBack in 2013 we looked at the leading patents filed in the 1980s and 1990s, using our metric AmberScore, which is available when you use our Cluster Searchingsoftware. This allowed us to see some of the key technology trends from these decades - which happened to be:
Read MoreHere at Ambercite, when using Cluster Searching, we like to talk about two calculated metrics:
And sometimes "Licensing Potential".
Read MoreSo what is Americas' most litigated patent? Is it something to do with smartphones, maybe the famous 364 page Steve Jobs patent, being asserted against big smartphone companies around the world? Or maybe something to do with Viagra, being asserted against big pharma?
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