Assignees Race Bar Chart Report
Date: 2023-11-03
Assignees Race Bar Chart:
Below is the race bar chart for the top assignees of the patent document domain collection covering remote medical and patient monitoring. Click HERE to see the full patent document landscape analytics report.
Domain Collection: The domain collection for this report was created by matching the phrases "remote patient monitor", "remote health monitor", or "remote medical monitor" in the title, abstract, description or claims of the patent documents available in Google’s BigQuery data warehouse in the patents.publications dataset. These phrases are queried in an “OR-ed” fashion such that the matching of any of these phrases, in any of the specified sections, will include that patent document in the domain collection. The patent documents query was executed on a worldwide basis across all US and international patent documents contained in Google’s dataset.
IP Competitive Landscape (Top Assignees): The top assignee in this domain collection is clearly Medtronic PLC , which is listed on twice as many patent documents as the second ranked assignee, which is Cardiac Pacemakers Inc., now a subsidiary of Boston Scientific . The third ranked assignee is Sophos LTD. , based in Abingdon, England, which focuses on communications, encryption, and network security. Sophos’ high ranking under scores the importance of communication security in the remote medical and patient monitoring market. Sophos was taken private in 2019 via an acquisition by Thoma Bravo, a US-based private equity firm . The fourth ranked assignee is Philips Electronics (also listed under slightly different names in the analysis ). Health Hero Network (now Bosch GmbH) is the fifth ranked assignee. MedApps Inc. ( acquired by Alere Inc. and now part of Abbott ) is technically the sixth ranked assignee via the patent documents assigned to Thomas Crosley, Terry Bartlett, Ralph Kent, and Kent Dicks.
The remaining assignees that make-up the top 25 consist of a mix of corporations, educational institutions, and additional individuals. There are however, two other assignees that look to be patent holding companies in this IP segment. In general, patent holding companies can sometime be viewed as risks to an IP sector due to the potential for these companies to pursue aggressive licensing and litigation business strategies. May Patents LTD looks to be a patent holding company based out of Israel. Searete LLC is a patent holding company and division of Intellectual Ventures LLC . Intellectual Ventures, in particular, has had a history of pursuing a licensing and litigation strategy that can potentially result in IP challenges for the companies competing in sectors in which Intellectual Ventures holds patents. See “Intellectual Ventures Back in Court – A Sign of More Litigation to Come?” and “Why were Toyota, Honda, and GM sued by Intellectual Ventures? Connected cars and patent litigation.” For more information see the Top Assignees table and the complete list of 1,305 assignees.
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- This is a brief video showing the top assignees over the period of time spanned by the entire domain collection.