Category: Emerging Technologies

Analyzing Developing Technologies to Strengthen your IP Position

On February 28, 2020
By In Emerging Technologies, IP Education, Posts
Leveraging IP data can strengthen your research strategy while positioning your company to actively identify opportunities and threats. However, the question is what should one be looking at? There are a number of areas to investigate but the first one we’re going to take a look at is emerging or “developing” technologies.  With emerging technologies,

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Agreements on Emerging Technology

On April 18, 2019
By In Emerging Technologies, Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts
Agreements are made for various reasons such as licensing and purchasing patents/assets, developing products, employment and so on. In the ktMINE Agreements App, you can find over 100,000 agreements, each of which has been individually analyzed to showcase a snapshot of relevant information. Among all the types of agreements, of interest to many are those

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The Automotive Revolution

On April 4, 2019
By In Emerging Technologies, Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts
What do patent filings reveal about the race to fully autonomous vehicles? We have explored various potential technological innovations in the auto industry in a previous post, but here we will look more specifically at patent filings related to self-driving cars. These patents can help provide a better understanding of the diverse challenges facing autonomous-vehicle

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Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrency

On March 28, 2019
By In Emerging Technologies, Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts
Ever since 2008 when Satoshi Nakamoto’s mysterious white paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” was first published, blockchain has been making endless appearances in tech blogs everywhere. A lot of claims have been made about how blockchain will change the world, but some are speculating that blockchain might be sinking into the trough of

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Virtual Reality Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

On February 28, 2019
By In Emerging Technologies, Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts
Though people often associate virtual reality (VR) with cyberpunk, futuristic dystopias, or flashy consumer tech, the ideas behind VR aren’t exactly new. Attempts at designing mechanical devices that were the Oculus Rift of their era took place at least as early as the 1950s, and the concept of alternative realities overriding the everyday world of

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