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 software-defined virtualized networking. 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 "network virtualization" AND ("software defined network" OR "software-defined network") anywhere 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 a logical fashion such that the matching 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 25 assignees in this domain collection consists almost exclusively of the world’s largest networking and telecommunications companies, with the patent documents concentrated somewhat with the top three assignees. The top assignee is VMware as a result of the company’s patent filings and its 2012 acquisition of Nicira Inc. The 2nd, and closely ranked assignee, is Ericsson , a large telecommunication company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and Cisco Systems rounds out the top three. These top three assignees account for approximately 60% of the patent documents of the top 10 assignees. The 4th ranked assignee is Juniper Networks Inc. , listed on approximately half as many patent documents as Cisco. The 5th ranked assignee is Intel Corporation .
The remaining assignees that make-up the top 25 consist mostly of a mix of large telecommunications, networking, and software companies. One smaller company of note, with a generally over-sized patent document position relative to its corporate size, is Parallel Wireless , a private company based in New Hampshire that's focused on 5G OpenRAN wireless systems. Despite the company's relatively small size, it ranks 12th on the top assignees list. One final company of note in the top 25 is NxGen Partners LP , which looks to be a patent holding company with a significant position in this IP sector and a ranking of 23rd overall (index #25 in the Top Assignees list). 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. For more information see the Top Assignees table and the complete list of 506 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.