Intellectual Property Creators
Tables Comparing the Effectiveness of patents according to company size
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Company Size | Large | Small | Total | ||||
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Patent Activity | |||||||
Patents granted | 4 | 100% | 5 | 100% | 9 | 100% | |
Protected commercial products | 4 | 100% | 5 | 100% | 9 | 100% | |
License appears to be available | 4 | 100% | 4 | 80% | 8 | 89% | |
Firm founded to develop technology | 0 | 0% | 4 | 80% | 4 | 44% | |
Sued Large Entities | 0 | 0% | 4 | 80% | 4 | 44% | |
Sued Small Entities | 0 | 0% | 2 | 50% | 2 | 22% | |
First Suit against Small Entity | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
Suits threatened | 1 | 25% | 5 | 100% | 5 | 67% | |
Patent Asserted (Notice sent) | 2 | 50% | 5 | 100% | 7 | 78% | |
Resolution (Patent Asserted) | |||||||
Infringement Removed | 0 | 0% | 1 | 20% | 1 | 11% | |
Product removed from market | 0 | 0% | 1 | 20% | 1 | 11% | |
Licenses | 1 | 25% | 2 | 40% | 3 | 33% | |
Unresolved | 1 | 25% | 1 | 20% | 2 | 22% | |
Nothing to Resolve (No notice ) | 2 | 50% | 0 | 0% | 2 | 22% | |
Total | 4 | 100% | 5 | 100% | 9 | 100% |
Had Commercial Products | Efficacy (Patents Asserted) | Cost (000,000/yr) | Cost-effectiveness | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Large entity | 4 | 2 | 0.03 | 67.8 | |
Small entity | 5 | 5 | 0.01 | 500. | |
Commercial Sector | 9 | 7 | 0.04 | 175. | |
Federally funded | 1 | 0 | $487.0 | 0.0021 |
(Last updated on 10/06/98)