May
06
2010
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European Inventors of the Year 2010 – The Most Inventive Minds in Europe

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The European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Commission last week honored the five prizewinners of the European Inventor Award, who hail from Germany, Switzerland, the USA and Canada. The presentation ceremony took place in Madrid and included the presence of Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia of Asturias.

Now in its fifth year, the European Inventor Award ceremony has been held in conjunction with the European Patent Forum and honors outstanding inventors in the following categories: Industry, SMEs/research, Non-European countries, and Lifetime achievement.

Bioplastics, football-shaped molecules, GPS technology, hydrogen fuel cells and 3-dimensional scanning systems were among the fields covered by the winners of the European Inventor Award 2010.

For more information, click here.

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Mar
26
2010
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America's Most Inventive Companies

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When it comes to patenting technology and making money from it, the top 10 companies in Forbes’ latest ranking of the Most Innovative U.S. Companies – IBM, Microsoft, Intel, General Electric, Cisco Systems, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Honeywell, Hewlett Packard and Micron Technology – are hard to beat.

The patent system, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, is one of the most important engines of American economic growth. It’s also a good indicator of corporate smarts: The U.S. companies that won the most patents last year also enjoyed high earnings and returns on capital, suggesting that they are skilled at wringing profits out of the money they invest.

You can see the full news story by Daniel Fisher and Jonathan Fahey on the Forbes website.

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Jan
18
2010
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Top 50 Patent Companies

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IBM today announced that, thanks to its 4,914 U.S. patents, it is for the 17th consecutive year the world’s most innovative company, according to data presented by IFI Patent Intelligence. Korea’s Samsung Electronics was second with 3,611 patents and Microsoft Corp. third with 2,906. For the second time in history, overseas companies obtained more patents than their North American counterparts (51 percent compared to 49 percent).

 You can view the complete ranking here.

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Mar
03
2009
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Thomson Reuters Releases 2009 Patent Focus Report

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The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters has released its 2009 Patent Focus Report. Authored by Joff Wild, editor of Intellectual Asset Management magazine, and published in the Thomson Reuters KnowledgeLink eNewsletter, this report explores recent activities at each of the world’s major patenting authorities (USA, Europe, Japan, China and India).

The report is available free of charge at http://go.thomsonreuters.com/pfr2009.

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