Media coverage
31 January 2012: Patents indicate 'significant advances' in desalination
The International Desalination & Water Reuse industry website published an article outlining a report authored by CambridgeIP and published by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO). The article focuses on the that the report describes how significant advances are being made in decreasing the cost of desalination and increasing its energy efficiency.
The patent landscape report found that from a total of 4551 patent families around desalination technologies, more than 20% refer to integration with a renewable energy source. Thermal energy integration with desalination has seen the most patenting activity, accounting for more than 80% of the patent families relating to renewable energy integration with desalination.
To read the full article click here or to access the full report on WIPO click here.
30 January 2012: UK government awards business grants to CambridgeIP
UK Business Funding Centre published a news article about the TSB grants awarded to CambridgeIP to build on the company’s work in meeting the strategic information needs of R&D intensive organisations around the world. "CambridgeIP is in the process of devising highly advanced business tools and services that will enable businesses of all sizes access to technological knowledge among organisations".
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24 January 2012: Water World 'Renewable powered desalination: South Korea catching up with patent leader Japan'
Water World published an article title 'Renewable powered desalination: South Korea catching up with patent leader Japan' outlining a report authored by CambridgeIP. The Water World article references a patent landscape report which was commissioned by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) and focuses on desalination technologies, and in particular on desalination technology integration with renewable energy sources. The report showed that from a total of 4551 patent families around desalination technologies, more than 20% refer to integration with a renewable energy source.
To read the full article on Water World click here or to access the full report on WIPO click here.
24 November 2011: First Solar on the patent throne for solar PV
CambridgeIP's report detailing the technology fundamentals of First Solar Inc was featured in an industry leading magazine. The report into First Solar Inc revealed insights into its competitive position, R&D focus and IP strategy and is available for purchase through CambridgeIP’s Knowledge and Innovation platform Boliven.com and through Bloomberg’s Premium Research and Data Platform BMART. The report was featured in both the 'Photovoltaics (PV)' and the 'Policy, investment and markets' section of renewableenergyfocus.com. View the article here.
2011, Vol.3 of the Publication: Medical Device Developments
CambridgeIP's research in the medical devices field was published in an industry leading journal. Our research helped to inform key market intelligence statistics and benchmark the industry as it enters the wireless technology field. CambridgeIP provided details of the number of medical device patents held worldwide and the top ten global assignees from all wireless medical device patents.
Click here to read CambridgeIP's input into the medical device publication or follow this link to read the full issue Medical Device Developments on ‘Small world: Miniature devices push the boundaries of medical exploration’
9 June 2011: Wireless dominates patents for heart, glucose monitors By: Neil Versel
Wireless and mobile technologies don’t just appear to be shaking up the medical device industry; according to new studies, there’s some real evidence backing these claims up.
A recent report from British research organization CambridgeIP found that a whopping eighty-nine percent of the more than 4,700 global patents for heart-rate monitors have some sort of wireless component, as do seventy-one percent of patents for blood-glucose monitors. Overall, wireless technology is part of thirty-one percent of the 26,503 patents CambridgeIP identified in five categories of medical devices, which also includes inhalers (six percent), auto-injectors (fifteen percent) and blood pressure monitors (forty-four percent).
“Our findings suggest that the number of patents referring to the wireless communication aspect of medical device technology has increased at a much faster rate than the overall number of device patents,” write the researchers, including CambridgeIP’s Ilian Iliev, Helena van der Merwe and Quentin Tannock, as well as Dr. Puay Tang of the University of Sussex.
According to the report, much of the growth can be traced to the entry of telecommunications and consumer electronics companies into the formerly insular domain of medical devices. There are a number of factors at work here, but one in particular stood out:
“In all datasets we observed a spike in the number of wireless communication-related patents in 2001, which could be due to the release of Bluetooth v.1.1. Although Bluetooth had already been around for some time (and no doubt companies were already conducting R&D into the uses of this technology), the 2001 standardization addressed many of the previous issues associated with this technology,” the report says.
Click here to read the full article
17 May 2011: Pira International ‘6 questions’ interview with Quentin Tannock, Chairman and Co-founder of CambridgeIP Ltd’
Ahead of the NanoMaterials 2011 conference on 7- 9 June, Pira International spoke with Quentin Tannock, Chairman and Co-founder of CambridgeIP, to find out more about CambridgeIP’s involvement in the nanotechnology sector and identify trends and issues in the industry.
Quentin highlighted one key market trend in the industry: the increasing importance of open innovation to the sector. However, he also explained that while this is the case, the level of open innovation activity is seemingly dependent on the culture in the target industry – rather than in the nanotechnology being applied.
Quentin also identified possible solutions to a major problem facing many nanotechnology developers: the effective commercialisation and scaling-up of nanotechnologies. In his response, Quentin discussed CambridgeIP’s insight into this issue gained through working with leading university and R&D laboratories and institutes, as well as the results to a recent CambridgeIP nanotechnology sector survey aimed at identifying current sentiments within the industry and suggestions on how to deal with key issues.
To read the interview hosted on the NanoMaterials 2011 conference website, please click here.
Quentin will be speaking on the second day of the NanoMaterials 2011 conference, and his presentation will focus on analysing current global nanomanufacturing trends in the nanotechnology sector. To find out more, please click here.
October 2010: CambridgeIP's Chairman Quentin Tannock was quoted in an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled 'Money From Nothing: Hatching a good idea for a business is the easy bit. Negotiating the legal and funding maze to bring it to life is the real challenge' [4 October, 2010].
The WSJ article discusses the difficulties businesses face in securing investment, resources and legal ability to operate in this economic climate. Issues covered in the article include whether patent legislation is rewarding or stifling innovation, how the patenting process appears to not keep up with the pace of innovation in some sectors and how patent-realated lawsuits are common in many technology-market spaces.
In the WSJ article Quentin Tannock says "Many innovative small and medium sized companies struggle to balance the costs and risks associated with applying for and holding patents against the business benefits of holding registered intellectual property. The difficulties appear more acute in some technology sectors than in others. Technology maturity and readiness levels, technology development costs and technology development cycles differ markedly between and even within technology sectors. Yet current intellectual property policy and regulation tends to be of the one-size-fits-all variety. My view is that governments need to develop 'smart' intellectual property policies and regulations that take into account technology sector diversity."
Related CambridgeIP blog article here.
Full Wall Street Journal article here.
January 2010: 'Can Technology Really Save Us from Climate Change?' Harvard Business Review [January/February 2010 edition].
The article highlights the research and analysis of a recent CambridgeIP and Chatham House Report [see original report here] regarding the influence of IP and Energy Technologies within our Low-Carbon Future. Full HBR Article Here.
Harvard Business Review cites IP analysis in the Cleantech space conducted by CambridgeIP and Chatham House as a potential market tool to help direct the future clean tech landscape more effectively. In addition, the article postulates on the potential influence of IP analysis to underpin methodologically a 'Moore's Law' for clean technology. The use of such a toolkit could assist both industry and government in accelerating technology innovation and deployment in the clean-tech space.
'To cut global emissions in half over the next 40 years, as scientists recommend, clean technologies must be rolled out on a vast scale. In the past, they have taken 19 to 30 years to achieve wide use, say researchers at the UK think tank Chatham House and the patent-search firm CambridgeIP...To be sure, powerful new market forces are at work: Governments beyond Europe are set to impose limits on greenhouse gases, and companies in a range of sectors are searching hard for ways to curb emissions. But technology deployment always takes time...That is particularly true of energy-related inventions, which tend to get into big trouble on their way out of the incubator and into the marketplace'
-Harvard Business Review [January/February 2010; p. 21]
22 September, 2009: ‘Heavy industry key to carbon reduction’, interview with Ilian Iliev, CEO of CambridgeIP
In an interview with The Engineer magazine, CambridgeIP’s CEO Ilian Iliev emphasised the need to engage with carbon-intensive industries in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Citing research from the recent Chatham House report ‘Who Owns our Low Carbon Future?’, Ilian pointed out that oil & gas companies are key owners of patented technology in this space, and have leading capabilities for CO2 injection.
27 August, 2009: New Energy Finance Magazine ‘Intellectual Property Protection: A Rising Priority in a Maturing Industry’
New Energy Finance magazine interviewed CambridgeIP’s Ilian Iliev on the increasingly important role of a thought-through IP strategy for technology companies in the low-carbon energy space. New Energy Finance cites Ilian Iliev: ‘A clear understanding of patenting shows that the team has a mature view of what the business should look like... Cleantech has had a bit of an innocent childhood and has not had to bother with this issue. Now it becomes a bit more risky”. You can read the full interview here
19 November, 2008: Managing Intellectual Property Week and Yahoo News: “UK Patent Leaders Revealed”
CambridgeIP’s patent ranking report of AIM listed companies continues to attract media coverage. Most recently by Managing Intellectual Property magazine, the leading international magazine for IP owners globally with a readership of 8,000+ professionals in the IP management community. You can access the full article here. Yahoo News also provided coverage of the story here.
You can access the AIM IP-based companies report for free in CambridgeIP's online reports section here.
1 November, 2008: M&A Deals 'Patent-rich companies ripe for takeover'
CambridgeIP's research on patent-intensive AIM listed companies was again featured in the media. This time by M&A specialist magazine 'M&A Deals'. The article notes that some of the top patenting companies at AIM - such as Transense and IDA Tech - may be significantly undervalued and a good buying opportunity. You can access the full article here. You can also access the AIM IP-based companies report in CambridgeIP's online reports section.
30 October, 2008: BusinessXL 'Genius at Work: Why Intellectual Property Still Matters'
CambridgeIP's research on patent-intensive AIM listed companies was featured in a recent front-page special by BusinessXL, the award-winning magazine for growing companies and entrepreneurs. Entitled 'Genius at Work: Why Intellectual Property Matters?', BusinessXL's Marc Barber explains how a well-constructed patent portfolio can make your business a commercial fortress. Research performed with CambridgeIP helped identify the most patent-intensive companies on AIM. You can access the full BusinessXL article here. You can also access the AIM IP-based companies report in CambridgeIP's online reports section.
