CambridgeIP’s graphene patent landscape research, profiled in the Financial Times, identifies the top graphene commercial innovators around the world. CambridgeIP’s analysis reveals increased R&D focus around the world to develop industrial scale graphene manufacturing methods, and increased graphene patent activity in Asia, especially China, where particularly significant numbers of graphene patent applications were filed in recent years.
Graphene patent landscape statistics and analysis from CambridgeIP are used by the Financial Times to illustrate relative differences in commercial innovation around graphene between different regions, including increasing volumes of graphene patents in Asia compared to elsewhere in the world. Challenges around scaling up graphene manufacturing and the stock market volatility of companies such as Haydale Graphene Industries, Applied Graphene Materials and Graphene Nanochem are also discussed in the Financial Times article.
Quentin Tannock (Exec. Chairman, CambridgeIP) was quoted by the Financial Times saying:
“Efficiently making industrial quantities of quality graphene represents a significant challenge. There has been significant R&D focus into developing new and improved graphene production methods [in recent years].”
CambridgeIP’s analysis of the densely populated graphene IP Landscape® is conducted on CambridgeIP’s extensive global patent database, using CambridgeIP’s proprietary search tools and patent analysis methods and enabling the development of this commercial innovation league table for graphene.
Developments in the most recent Commercial Innovation League TableTM - Graphene
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2012-2013 sees incumbents Samsung, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Oceans King Lighting Science maintain the top 3 places in the league table.
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IBM continues to increase its filing rate, along with Tsinguha, Zhejiang and Southeast Universities.
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Sungkyunkwan University, a graphene R&D partner of Samsung, drops down the rankings from 4th to 9th place.
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Resources
Selected media coverage:
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Financial Times ‘UK appears behind in race to develop graphene’, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7d4ce33a-dc56-11e3-9016-00144feabdc0.html#axzz329F1oYLV
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BBC Radio 4: ‘Riding the Graphene Wave’, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03kpnjx
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BBC: ‘Graphene patent surge reveals global race’, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21028056
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Financial Times: ‘Faster, stronger, bendier’, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6f4717b6-66f9-11e2-a83f-00144feab49a.html#axzz329mwWSLS
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The Telegraph: ‘Graphene research moving abroad’, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9802050/Graphene-research-moving-abroad.htm
Additional media coverage of CambridgeIP’s graphene patent landscape research:
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CambridgeIP Press & Media: http://www.cambridgeip.com/about/press-media/
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BBC Today Programme – Quentin Tannock (Chairman, CambridgeIP): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21028056
- CambridgeIP Knowledge Centre and key publications: http://www.cambridgeip.com/knowledge/publications/
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