Do you need insurance for your patent searches?
We all know that patent searching matters. The results of our searches can affect what can be multi-million investments in new products, outcome or settlements in litigation, expensive patent filings, or the reputation and repeat business of your organisation.
Given the above - do your patent searches
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CRISPR Patent Dispute: applying advanced patent analytics
CRISPR is an important new technology in biotech - and not surprisingly has already attracted patent litigation. What can advanced patent analytics tell us about this?
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Why does Ambercite not offer keyword searching?
Keyword is a commonly used search approach, and with good reason.
Yet Ambercite does not offer keyword searching - so why is Ambercite 'swimming against the current' so to say?
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AmberScore: a simple and effective patent quality metric
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...
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Did Apple first invent a phone with a flexible display?
Apple have just been granted US patent 9504170 for a phone with a flexible display device, which is attracting a bit of press.
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Amberscope Case Study: the helicopter drone patent landscape
Since 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.
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The leading patents filed this century - what do they protect?
Back 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:
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Similarity, AmberScore and Licensing Potential? What does it all mean? And how does this help you?
Here at Ambercite, when using Cluster Searching, we like to talk about two calculated metrics:
And sometimes "Licensing Potential".
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America's most litigated patent, revisited
So 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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