Brightcove was issued a broad patent for the "Distribution of content," which covers the basic features of a professional online video platform.
In conclusion, there are a number of empirical investigations pointing to an uncertain relationship between patent and FDI distribution, which depends on the political and business risks of the country included, FDI sources, data from opinion surveys or secondary data, and the approach used to calculate the level of patent protection scale.
Google acquired an established brand with a vast portfolio of patents, a mature distribution system and a knowledgeable manufacturing arm.
That money helped provide the cash to secure 19 in-lid distribution patents owned byStrategic Integration, Avecmedia and other electronics firms.
That money helped provide the cash to secure 19 in-lid distribution patents owned by Strategic Integration, Avecmedia and other electronics firms.
Table 1 Distribution of patents (by ownership) Period 2000 2005 2006–2011 Academic patents (total)a 73 94 Owned by University 6 14 Firm or PROs 52 65 Co-assigned 15 9 aThe six patents where assignees are only inventors are not counted.
Fig. 1 Distribution of patent applications under PCT by country for 2010.
The distribution of patent value from these records is highly skew, with the vast majority of the returns earned by a select set of high valued patents, consistent with finding for other measures of patent value.
The usual method of calculating the regional distribution of patent counts – not only in Germany but in many countries all over the world – is to assign the patents to districts by inventors' residential addresses.
The distribution of patent applications on health products submitted by various German PROs in 10 years is shown in Figure 2. Universities and university-affiliated institutions submitted almost half (48%) of all PRO patent applications.
