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Thumb: Single Industry Patent Scorecard The Patent Board™ is the leading independent provider of best practices research, tools and metrics for patent analysis and intellectual property investment. The Patent Board™ tracks and analyzes innovation, movement, and the business value of patent assets across 17 industries on a global basis.

The Patent Board™ produces a Patent Scorecard™ that ranks companies on patent quality, technological strength and breadth of impact. It tracks the U.S. patent portfolios of more than 2500 of the world’s top technology firms. The Patent Board’s metrics reflect varying aspects of innovation, speed, strength and relevancy.

The Patent Scorecard is published each month and the indicators are calculated based on a rolling 12-month calendar.

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Patent Portfolio Indicators

Quality Quantity Science Speed
Technology Strength™: ranking measure to indicate an overall strength of the company’s patent portfolio holdings with a combined measure of quality and quantity.

Industry Impact™: indicates the extent to which others are building upon a portfolio of issued US utility patents as compared to a total set of patents.

Patents Granted: a count of patents granted during the period under analysis.

Science Strength™: ranking measure to indicate how much a company uses science in building its patent portfolio with a combined measure of science and quantity.

Research Intensity™: tracks a indicates the extent to which a portfolio includes patents with above average Science Linkage.

Innovation Cycle Time™: indicates whether a patent or patent portfolio is building off newer or older inventions (art).


 
   
January 2008 Scorecard Leaders  
Rank Company Change
1   Leviton Mfg Co Inc Down
2   Illinois Tool Works Up
3   Matsushita Electric Industrial Up
4 Rockwell Automation Inc Unchanged
5 Sumitomo Electric Industries Up
6 Schneider SA Down
7 General Electric Co Down
8 3M Co Down
9 FCI Down
10 Eaton Corp Up
Compiled with data through 1/1/2008

 
A Look at the Leaders

Patent Growth charts changes in industry related U.S. patents awarded in a given year, excluding design and other special-case inventions.



Industry Impact measures the impact of a company’s innovations on the latest technological developments compared to others in
the industry.

The Patent Scorecard ranks corporate innovation using a series of metrics to determine patent quality, technological strength and breadth of impact. 
 
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