Intellectual Property Landscape Report
Telemedicine Platform Technology Intellectual Property Landscape

James H. Moeller - Moeller Ventures LLC - https://www.moellerventures.com/
Date: 2020-04-20

How to Use this Report:
  • Short on time? Skip right to the Results Summary section. It's usually only a few-minute read.
  • Want more market background? Continue to the Market Intelligence section.
  • To dig deeper, see the Notable Top Corporate Assignees section for brief summarizes of the top companies analyzed in this report.
  • Then see the exhibits for the detailed results of this IP landscape. The HTML version of this report provides interactive figures and tables, with mouse-over, zoomable data display and searchable, sortable tables. So, if you want to find the top inventors from a specific company just enter the company name in the assignee search box on the Top Inventors table to show the filtered list. Similar queries and sorts can be performed on the other tables as well.
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Overview:

This is part two of a three-part series focused on telemedicine and provides an IP landscape focused on telemedicine platform technology. The landscape domain collection was derived via an assignee query, on Google’s BigQuery patent dataset, using 33 company names (including variations of the company names and acquisitions executed by these companies) representing the major competitors in the telemedicine platform technology marketplace. Part one of this series, available at the following link, performed a landscape focused more on the core enabling technology of telemedicine via a keyword, key phrase-derived domain collection. https://www.moellerventures.com/index.php/blog/25-2020-articles/45-connected-health-telemedicine-patent-landscape  Part three of this series will utilize Google’s “similars” database to produce a landscape focused on all patent documents deemed to be similar to those in this assignee-query generated landscape.  See the following link for more information on the landscape process and the descriptions of the types of landscapes. https://www.moellerventures.com/index.php/blog/25-2020-articles/46-iplandscapes-process-descriptions  The Google patent dataset used in this analysis is current with patent documents published through March 24, 2020.

The report sections below consist of a results summary, a market intelligence brief, profiles of the notable top corporate assignees, as well as tables presenting the details of the patent document landscape. These patent document landscape tables cover a profiling of the domain collection (Exhibits 1, 2, 3, 4), tabulations of inventors (Exhibit 5) and assignees (Exhibit 6), an analysis of the most referenced citations (Exhibits 7, 8), and a break-down of the technology classification CPC group codes (Exhibits 9,10,11). All the tables in this report (as available on https://www.moellerventures.com/) are interactive and can be sorted and searched via the column headings and available keyword search boxes with each table.

Results Summary:
  • This IP landscape report profiles the telemedicine platform technology patent documents filed specifically by the major competitors currently providing solutions in the marketplace. In total 33 companies are included in this analysis with the names of the companies (including variations of the names and names of acquisitions) used in an assignee-matching query to create the patent documents domain collection. See the following link for domain creation info. https://www.moellerventures.com/index.php/blog/25-2020-articles/46-iplandscapes-process-descriptions
  • In total, 33 corporate names (and variations) along with the names of, cumulatively, 24 acquired companies were used in the assignee-matching query. This query created a patent documents domain collection consisting of 319 patent applications and 118 granted patents.
  • Of the 33 companies included in the analysis and briefly profiled below, only 11 companies surfaced with patent filings. Of those 11 companies, one company, Teladoc Health dominates the patent landscape. Teladoc Health has 159 patent applications (pending or abandoned) and 69 granted patents in this landscape analysis (see the profile of Teladoc Health below and Exhibit 6: Top Assignees).
  • Teladoc Health has executed 11 separate acquisitions through which it has acquired nearly all of its patent portfolio position. In fact, through just one acquisition, its most recent acquisition of InTouch Technologies, Teladoc acquired a patent position consisting of 140 patent applications and 63 granted patents.
  • While the market has historically been slow to gain acceptance by healthcare providers and insurance companies, the recent coronavirus pandemic has quickly changed that in the last month. Just since the beginning of March, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations have been waived to enable telemedicine to deliver remote healthcare to Medicare patients. A corresponding spill-over effect has resulted in similar telemedicine capabilities for corporate and independent plans as well.
  • The recent opportunities in telemedicine are improving the market positioning of new competitors and technologies. The HHS Notification of Enforcement Discretion specifically mentions video conferencing tools like Microsoft Teams (or Skype), Google Hangouts, and Amazon Chime as telemedicine communication solutions, and Apple’s FaceTime app falls into the same category. These new competitors are also better positioned to utilize medical IoT (M-IoT) for proactive care and remote monitoring. 
  • While the earliest patent filing in the domain collection was in November of 1989 (by Medfusion Inc., recently acquired by Nexgen Healthcare) the active filing period really began in 2003, with most patent filings occurring between 2008 and 2016. See Exhibit 1 (Date Coverage) and Exhibit 4 (Patent Applications Filing Timeline).
  • In the assignee table of Exhibit 6, Teladoc Health (largely via InTouch Technologies) is the leading assignee with 159 patent applications (pending or abandoned) and 69 granted patents (including all applications and grated patents by acquired companies). American Well Corporation (Amwell) has the second leading IP position with 82 applications and 33 granted patents. Zocdoc is third with 42 applications and 4 granted patents. Healthtap is fourth with 20 applications and zero granted patents. After that, the IP positions shrink abruptly with Care Innovations in fifth with zero applications and 5 granted patents. See Exhibit 6 (Top Assignees) and the company profiles below.
  • From a funding perspective only four of the 33 companies analyzed in this report are public. Teladoc is listed on the NYSE with a market cap (as of April 17, 2020) of $12.8 billion. Care Innovations is a division of PRA Health Sciences (NASDAQ: PRAH) which has a market cap of $5.7 billion. Nextgen Healthcare (NASDAQ: NXGN) has a market cap of $703.3 million, and CareClix is an OTC pink-sheet stock.
  • Cumulatively the 29 private companies have raised approximately $1.8 billion in venture funding. American Well has raised $517 million, followed by ZocDoc ($223 million), SOC Telemed ($180 million), Doctor On Demand ($160.7 million), MDLive ($123.6 million), and Crossover Health ($113.5). See the company profiles below.
  • From a notable citations perspective the top referenced portfolios belong to companies with patent positions in medical robotics and video telepresence. These include Intuitive Surgical (including its acquisition of Computer Motion, Inc.), Hewlett Packard (via Compaq Computer Corporation), and a set of patents assigned to Ryerson Polytechnic University, Telbotics Inc., and the University of Toronto. See Exhibit 8 (Top Patent Document Citations, Sorted by Assignee).
  • Of the companies included in this analysis only American Well Corporation has a notable citations portfolio in the top five, with three patents that are reference relatively frequency. So, while American Well doesn’t lead the assignee ranking in this analysis, at least three of its patents seem to be rather significant based on citation references.
  • From a technology perspective (i.e. CPC code analysis) the most significant concentration of inventive ideas is focused on the topics of digital data processing and healthcare informatics. This is true of the results from both the CPC group code and CPC group code number analyses. For CPC group codes the top three codes (G06F, G16H, G06Q) all pertain to these topics and cover 57% of the top 250 group code counts applied to patent applications in the domain collection. See Exhibits 9, 10, and 11.
Market Intelligence:

Telemedicine is currently an extremely dynamic market and is potentially at the most critical inflection point of its entire history. The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and overnight changes to reimbursement regulations, as well as a quickly changing competitive landscape and the availability of new technologies are all dynamics that potentially position telemedicine as a significant mainstream healthcare mechanism.

The recent COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has put a spotlight on telemedicine as a way to deliver remote healthcare across our entire medical industry. But historically the market has been slower to gain popularity and it’s only in the last few years that there has been notable evidence that telemedicine was taking hold. A November 2018 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) report concluded that while telemedicine visits grew substantially from 2005 through 2017, overall the popularity of telemedicine was still relatively low and in 2017 accounted for only 6.5 patient visits out of every 1,000. But the pandemic has dramatically changed all this in just the last month and has made telemedicine a key tool in preventing the spread of the coronavirus. As a result of the passage of the Coronavirus Supplemental Appropriations Act on March 6th and the declaration of a National Health Emergency on March 13th the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) department issued a Notification of Enforcement Discretion effectively allowing more extensive telemedicine services for Medicare patients. This has dramatically improved the telemedicine healthcare landscape particularly in servicing Medicare patients and has further resulted in a spill-over effect of telemedicine used in corporate and independent healthcare plans as well. The big question seems to be if these telemedicine service capabilities will remain in place as the pandemic subsides. Actually, with the benefits delivered during the pandemic, the better question might be, why wouldn’t the telemedicine capabilities remain in place.

The changing competitive landscape and new technologies are also impacting telemedicine. Companies from outside the traditional healthcare marketplace, such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, are all working on healthcare related projects and could somewhat easily start providing telemedicine-specific platform solutions. In fact, the U.S. HHS Notification of Enforcement Discretion specifically mentions video conferencing tools like Microsoft Teams (or Skype), Google Hangouts, and Amazon Chime as telemedicine communication solutions that are now acceptable during the pandemic emergency, and Apple’s FaceTime app falls into the same category. In addition, many of these companies are much further down the medical IoT (M-IoT) development path and can leverage those solutions into remote monitoring and proactive healthcare telemedicine capabilities. For more market intelligence and market growth estimates see the technology-oriented, keyword-derived telemedicine IP landscape report published on March 9th and available at the following link. https://www.moellerventures.com/index.php/blog/25-2020-articles/45-connected-health-telemedicine-patent-landscape

References:

Notable Top Corporate Assignees:
  • 98point6 Inc. - https://www.98point6.com/
    • Overview: 24/7 mobile app delivered text-based primary care for common ailments such as aches, pains, colds, and the flu.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: No patent documents in domain collection.
    • Headquarters: Seattle, WA
    • Funding Status: Privately held. Has raised a total of $86.3 million. Last fundraising was a series C round in October 2018 for $50 million. 
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “98point6”
  • Akos Md, LLC - https://akosmd.com/
    • Overview: App-based (computer, tablet, mobile phone) face-to-face video consultations for common ailments such as aches, pains, colds, and the flu.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: 1 application, 0 granted patents, 2 inventors.
    • Headquarters: Phoenix, AZ
    •  Funding Status: Privately held. Raised $1 million in March of 2017.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “Akos MD, LLC”, “Akos MD LLC”
  • AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc. - https://www.amdtelemedicine.com/
    • Overview: Provides telemedicine encounter management software, integrated medical devices and complete telemedicine platform systems to deliver care throughout the care continuum.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: 3 applications, 0 granted patents, 4 inventors.
    • Headquarters: Chelmsford, MA
    • Funding Status: Privately held. Grew organically over the course of 25 years involved in the telemedicine market. 
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “AMD Global Telemedicine”
  • American Doctors On-Line, Inc.
    • Overview: Patent holding and licensing company.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: 1 application, 3 granted patents, 1 inventor.
    • Headquarters: Fairhaven, MA
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “American Doctors On-Line”, “American Doctors Online”
  • Beam Health Group, LLC - https://www.beam.health/
    • Overview: Beam is the first pay-as-you-go digital care platform for small health practices that help doctors and patients find each other and connect via billable video appointments.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: No patent documents in domain collection.
    • Headquarters: New York, NY
    • Funding Status: Privately held. Early stage start-up founded in April 2018. Currently raising seed round.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “Beam Health Group”
  • Bright.Md Inc. – https://www.bright.md/
    • Overview: Bright.md's SmartExam is an AI-powered care automation platform that helps primary care groups automate up to 90% of provider time spent on low-acuity conditions, such as colds, flu, and earaches, and thus increase provider efficiency and capacity.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: No patent documents in domain collection.
    • Headquarters: Portland, OR
    • Funding Status: Privately held. Has raised a total of $20.5 million. Last fundraising was a series C round in March 2020 for $8 million.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “Bright.Md”
  • CareClix Inc. – https://www.careclix.com/
    • Overview: Software and service provider for white-label telemedicine platforms for hospitals and clinics.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: No patent documents in domain collection.
    • Headquarters: Alexandria, VA
    • Funding Status: Public via Solei Systems Inc. (OTCLNK:SOLI). Solei Systems Inc is a fully reporting, fully audited public holding company in the health and wellness field with its primary focus on telemedicine. Currently Solei Systems, Inc is comprised of two wholly-owned subsidiaries: CareClix, Inc. and Clinical & Herbal Innovations, Inc. > https://irdirect.net/SOLI
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “CareClix Inc”, “CareClix, Inc”
  • eVisit, Inc. - https://evisit.com/
    • Overview: eVisit provides a telemedicine patient engagement platform for hospitals and health systems covering primary care, urgent care and mental health. 
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: No patent documents in domain collection.
    • Headquarters: Mesa, AZ
    • Funding Status: Privately held. Has raised a total of $11.8 million. Last fundraising was a follow-on seed round in December 2019 for $9.7 million.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “eVisit, Inc”, “eVisit Inc”
  • GYANT.COM, INC.- https://gyant.com/
    • Overview: GYANT is a chat-based app providing a digital front door for health systems and uses AI to navigate patients to the right care setting and relevant in-network resources.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: No patent documents in domain collection.
    • Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
    • Funding Status: Privately held. The company has raised a total of $9.2 million. Last fundraising was $2.4 million in June 2014.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “Gyant.com”
  • Klara Technologies, Inc. - https://www.klara.com/
    • Overview: Klara Technologies provides a telemedicine platform to care provides that focuses on ease of communications with patients. The platform utilizes secure messaging, real-time video visits, and remote monitoring as well as integration of that information into existing back-end electronic health records (EHR) systems.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: No patent documents in domain collection.
    • Headquarters: New York, NY
    • Funding Status: Privately held. Has raised a total of $17 million. Last fundraising was a series A round in August 2018. The company is targeting a series B round in 2020.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “Klara Technologies Inc”, “Klara Technologies, Inc”
  • Mediorbis, LLC – https://mediorbis.com/mediorbis/index.html
  • MySpecialistMD, LLC - http://www.myspecialistmd.com/msmd/index.html
    • Overview: MediOrbis is a telemedicine platform that connects patients with doctors and other care providers for consultations covering general common care and specialists. It utilizes a mobile app for smartphones and tables, a web app for computer browser access, or voice phone communications. MediOrbis is closely affiliated with MySpecialistMD, which serves as the network of doctors for MediOrbis. Both organizations look to be physician founded.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: No patent documents in domain collection.
    • Headquarters: Cleveland, OH
    • Funding Status: Privately held. No additional funding information available.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “Mediorbis LLC”, “Mediorbis, LLC”, “MySpecialistMD LLC”, “MySpecialistMD, LLC”.
  • MeMD, Inc. – https://www.memd.net/
    • Overview: MeMD provides telemedicine platform offering access to affordable, convenient, on-demand and secure web-based health care. MeMD combines proven telemedicine technologies with business model innovations to improve access to medical providers and reduce costs.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: No patent documents in domain collection.
    • Headquarters: Scottsdale, AZ
    • Funding Status: Privately held. No additional funding information available.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “MeMD, Inc”, “MeMD Inc”
  • MyTelemedicine, Inc. - https://mytelemedicine.com/
    • Overview: MyTelemedicine offers a proprietary, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform built in the Cloud that allows healthcare providers to consult with patients remotely. Physicians can perform on-demand consultations with patients anywhere via telephone and video technology. The company allows third parties to integrate their APIs and offer a customized telemedicine experience to support their brand identity.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: No patent documents in domain collection.
    • Headquarters: McKinney, TX
    • Funding Status: Privately held. No additional funding information available.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “MyTelemedicine Inc”, “Mytelemedicine, Inc”
  • Nexgen Healthcare (NXGN Management, LLC) - https://www.nextgen.com/
    • Overview: Nexgen Healthcare is an electronic health records company that recently acquired two companies in the telehealth market so that the company can provide integrated solutions spanning telehealth and the records systems supporting those services. Nexgen Health recently acquired Medfusion Inc. (a patient experience platform supplier) and OTTO Health LLC (a developer of virtual care services).
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: 
      • Medfusion - 1 application, 2 granted patents, 8 inventors. 
    • Headquarters: Irvine, CA
    • Funding Status: Public - NASDAQ: NXGN.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “NXGN Management”, “Nexgen Healthcare”, “Medfusion Inc”, “Medfusion, Inc”, “OTTO Health LLC”, “OTTO Health, LLC”
    • Acquisitions (2):
  • Pager, Inc. - https://pager.com/
    • Overview: Pager provides mobile-health patient engagement platform solutions that enable communication, navigation, and care management. Patients can seamlessly interact with their care team anytime, anywhere, via chat, voice and video on their smartphone.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: 4 applications, 0 granted patents, 6 inventors.
    • Headquarters: New York, NY
    • Funding Status: Privately held. Has raised a total of $62.6 million. Last fundraising was a combination of equity and dept in March 2020, consisting of a series B round for $22 million combined with $11 million in debt financing.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “Pager, Inc”, “Pager Inc”
  • Virtuwell - https://www.virtuwell.com/  (A HealthPartners Company)
    • Overview: Virtuwell is an affordable online medical clinic that provides 24/7 access to certified nurse practitioners for common medical conditions. 
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: No patent documents in domain collection.
    • Headquarters: St. Paul, MN
    • Funding Status: Virtuwell is a division of HealthPartners, which is an integrated, nonprofit health care provider and health insurance company located in Bloomington, Minnesota. 
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “Virtuwell”
  • ZocDoc, Inc. - https://www.zocdoc.com/
    • Overview: ZocDoc offers a telemedicine platform that started at the beginning of the patient engagement process with capabilities to find in-network doctors and instantly book appointments via their mobile app. The company has recently expanded on that capability with virtual video-facilitated appointments that cover 50 medical specialties via a nationwide network of participating healthcare providers.
    • Existence in Patent Docs Domain Collection: 42 applications, 4 granted patents, 6 inventors, covering 3 different CPC group codes ranked in the top 250.
    • Headquarters: New York, NY
    • Funding Status: Privately held. ZocDoc has raised a total of $223 million. Latest fundraising consists of $130 million raised in August 2015, followed by two additional funding rounds (details undisclosed) in May 2017 and July 2019.
    • Company Names Used in Patent Filings Assignee Query: “ZocDoc”

Exhibit 1: Domain Collection: Date Coverage
  • This is a table summarizing the date coverage, listing the earliest and most recent dates for filed patent applications, published documents, and granted patents.
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Exhibit 2: Domain Collection: Geographic Coverage
  • This is a table summarizing the geographic distribution of patent applications and granted patents by country contained in the domain collection.
  • Total number of patent applications = 348
  • Total number of granted patents = 118
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Exhibit 3: Domain Collection: Geographic Breakdown of English Patent Application Sections
  • This table shows the geographic breakdown of the number patent applications with English abstracts, descriptions, and claims. This table is designed to provide context on the English-searchable patent documents from which landscape semantic-search results are derived and the documents that can be queried for additional intellectual property research.
  • Google's BigQuery patents.publications data table contains full text information on U.S patent documents as well as abstract and bibliographic info on international patent documents. As of the date of this report, the BigQuery data table does not contain full text descriptions and claims for international patent documents.
  • Total number of patent applications with English abstracts = 348
  • Total number of patent applications with English descriptions = 207
  • Total number of patent applications with English claims = 207
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Exhibit 4: Domain Collection: Frequency of Patent Application Filings Timeline
  • This shows a bar chart timeline of the frequency of patent application filings and provides a concise view of the historic trend of application filings embodied in the domain collection.
  • More specifically, the bar chart shows the number of patent applications filed on a quarterly basis beginning with the earliest filed application in the domain collection and ending with the most recent application filing in the domain collection as queried from the Google BigQuery patents.publications dataset table.

1989-Q41990-Q41991-Q41992-Q41993-Q41994-Q41995-Q41996-Q41997-Q41998-Q41999-Q42000-Q42001-Q42002-Q42003-Q42004-Q42005-Q42006-Q42007-Q42008-Q42009-Q42010-Q42011-Q42012-Q42013-Q42014-Q42015-Q42016-Q42017-Q42018-Q405101520
Frequency of Patent Application FilingsYear-QuarterNumber of Patent Applications


Exhibit 5: Domain Collection: Top Inventors and the Principal Assignees
  • This table identifies the top inventors listed on the patent applications contained in the domain collection and essentially identifies the top intellectual property experts of the domain area profiled. This table also lists the entities (corporations, educational institutions, etc.) to which those inventors have assigned the predominant number of patent applications, and thus identifies relationships between inventors and those assignees.
  • The “Total Num of Patent Apps” column indicates the total number of patent applications on which the individual is listed as an inventor. The default sorting of the table is on this column in descending order.
  • The “Num of Patent Apps per Assignee” column indicates the number of patent applications, on which the individual is listed as an inventor, that have been assigned to the indicated assignee.
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Exhibit 6: Domain Collection: Top Assignees
  • This table identifies the top assignees of patent applications contained in the domain collection and largely shows the competitive landscape from an intellectual property perspective.
  • The “Total Num of Patent Apps per Assignee” column indicates the total number of applications that have been assigned to the indicated assignee.
  • The “Percent of Top 250 Assignees” column indicates the percentage of assignments of the indicated assignee across the top 250 assignees.
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Exhibit 7: Domain Collection: Top Patent Document Citations
  • This table identifies the most cited patent document references across the domain collection and is designed to identify the most significant patent documents to the domain area profiled.
  • A cited patent document is typically a patent application or granted patent that is considered as significant (prior art, or in some way relevant) to the patent application that cites it. This table below thus represents the list of most cited patent document references on patent applications in the domain collection. These cited patent documents may or may not be in the domain collection, but nonetheless represent notable references relevant to the domain collection.
  • The “Number of Patent Apps” column indicates the number of times the citation was referenced across all applications in the domain collection.
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Exhibit 8: Domain Collection: Top Patent Document Citations, Sorted by Assignee
  • This tables shows the same information as the previous Top Patent Document Citations table except this table is sorted by assignee and is designed to identify the assignees with most significant intellectual property position across the domain.
  • Like the previous table, the “Number of Patent Apps” column indicates the number of times the citation was referenced across all applications in the domain collection.
  • The “Tot Num of Patent Apps” column indicates the total number of patent application citations on an assignee basis. This number is computed by examining the citations per assignee and then summing the number of times those citations are referenced across the domain collection. The default sorting of the table ranks assignees in descending order of “Tot Num of Patent Apps” and thus provides an indication of the assignee’s intellectual property position in the domain area.
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Exhibit 9: Domain Collection: Top Inventive CPC Group Codes
  • This is a table of the top inventive CPC group codes (and the group code titles) that are assigned to patent applications across the domain collection and thus provides a ranking of the macro-level technology topics that are utilized in the domain area profiled.
  • CPC codes are assigned to every patent application to categorize the inventive ideas embodied the application. The CPC code consists of at least 7 characters and digits as defined by the Cooperative Patent Classification code system. The first four characters and digits are referred to as the CPC group code, which can be interpreted as a macro-level classification of the inventive ideas. The titles of the group codes thus provide a macro-level description of the embodied technology.
  • The “Percent of Top 250 Codes” column indicates the concentration of the inventive ideas in the designated group code across the top 250 group codes in the domain collection. Patent applications can be assigned multiple CPC codes representing potentially different inventive ideas embodied in the application.
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Exhibit 10: Domain Collection: Top Inventive CPC Group Numbers
  • This is a table of the top inventive CPC group numbers (and the group number titles) that are assigned to patent applications across the domain collection and augments the previous Top Inventive CPC Group Codes table.
  • This table essentially adds an additional level of description to the inventive ideas embodied in the domian collection. Where the group code represented a macro-level description, the group number is a level more detailed and provides more insight into the technologies embodied in the inventive ideas of the domain collection. Thus "Group Code Title" and "Group Number Title" combined provide two levels of description of the inventive technologies used in the patent applications across the domain collection.
  • The “Percent of Top 250 Group Numbers” column indicates the concentration of the inventive ideas in the designated group number across the top 250 group numbers in the domain collection. Patent applications can be assigned multiple CPC codes representing potentially different inventive ideas embodied in the application.
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Exhibit 11: Domain Collection: Top CPC Group Codes by Assignee
  • This is a table of the most significant CPC Group Code - assignee combinations of patent applications in the domain collection and thus provides an indication of the significant focus technologies for the various assignees.
  • The “Number of Patent Apps” column indicates the number of patent applications, designated to the indicated assignee, to which the CPC Group Code was assigned. The default sorting of the table on this column in descending order thus ranks the most significant focus technologies for the indicated assignee.
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Exhibit 12: Domain Collection: Top Inventive CPC Codes Heatmap Timeline
  • This shows a timeline heatmap of the number of patent applications that utilize the top inventive CPC codes as filed on a quarterly basis spanning the domain collection application filing timeline. This heatmap is designed to provide visibility into the technology trends represented by the most used CPC codes in the domain collection.


1989-Q11989-Q41990-Q31991-Q21992-Q11992-Q41993-Q31994-Q21995-Q11995-Q41996-Q31997-Q21998-Q11998-Q41999-Q32000-Q22001-Q12001-Q42002-Q32003-Q22004-Q12004-Q42005-Q32006-Q22007-Q12007-Q42008-Q32009-Q22010-Q12010-Q42011-Q32012-Q22013-Q12013-Q42014-Q32015-Q22016-Q12016-Q42017-Q32018-Q22019-Q1G06FG16HG06QB25JH04NG05DA61BH04LG16ZG06T
02468101214Heat Map Timeline: Patent Applications per Inventive CPC Group CodeDate Year-QuarterTop 10 CPC Group Codes


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