Boliven Patents Top 25 Report Identifies U.S. Innovation And Patent Leaders For 2008

Report Leverages Easy-To-Use Boliven Analytics To Rank Top Inventors, Agents, Assignees, And Examiners; Boliven Members Can Build Their Own Customized Analyses And Reports.

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NEW YORK, New York – February 10, 2009 – Boliven, the trusted community for leading innovators, today announced that it released its Boliven Patents Top 25 Report for 2008, a publication designed to help inventors, technology entrepreneurs, and patent and licensing professionals identify the innovation and patent leaders in the United States. The report focuses exclusively on data compiled from patents granted by the USPTO during 2008.

“The Boliven Patents Top 25 Report leverages Boliven Analytics, our easy-to-use patent analytics product that helps researchers and professionals understand the leading companies, inventors, law firms, or patent examiners working in a particular field of technology,” said Thomas Lehrman, Founder and CEO of Boliven LLC. “By making Boliven Patents Top 25 Report available for free on the Internet, we seek both to honor the leadership of some of the most innovative individuals and institutions in the U.S. and abroad and to ensure that university students and start-up companies have ready access to information that helps to orient their research and business development activities.”

Boliven Analytics is a web-based patent analytics product that enables Boliven Members to:

Visualize Key Individuals, Institutions, Patents, And Classifications For Any Search: After using Analytics to identify top inventors, assignees, agents, top classifications, or most cited patents for a given patent search, Members can then easily click back through the chart to a refined set of search results that contain only the items that pertain to the particular individual or institution of interest.

Identify Most Cited Patents In Any Technology Area: Boliven Analytics enables you to quickly identify the patents that are most often cited by the patents and applications in your patent search, enabling you to accelerate the identification of seminal or foundational patents in a particular area.

Speed Prior Art Searches By Discovering The Right Classifications To Search: Effective prior art search often depends on searching the classifications and sub-classifications that are most likely to be checked by patent examiners. Boliven Analytics makes it easy for Members to discover which classifications show up most often for the technology areas that are most relevant to the applicant’s work.

Build Customized Reports To Support Licensing And Tech Transfer Activities: Effective due diligence for patent-related licensing transactions often depends on having situational awareness on the top players in a range of technology areas. Boliven Analytics has built-in exporting tools to make it easy to create customized reports to support the licensing and technology transfer needs of your institution.

Founded in 2007, Boliven provides members with access to unique IP-related business information resources and tools to connect IP professionals to professionals seeking their services. Boliven’s growing membership includes leading inventors, IP law partners, technology licensing directors and professionals, and venture investors from among the Fortune 100, top 20 law firms, top 25 research universities, and leading technology-focused venture capital firms globally. For more information, visit us at www.boliven.com

Media contacts:
Thomas Lehrman
Founder and CEO
media@boliven.com