The Patent Board™ is the leading independent provider of best practices research, tools and metrics for patent analysis and intellectual property investment. The Patent Board™ tracks and analyzes innovation, movement, and the business value of patent assets across 17 industries on a global basis.

The Patent Board™ produces a Patent Scorecard™ that ranks companies on patent quality, technological strength and breadth of impact. It tracks the United States and European Patent Office patent portfolios of more than 2,700 of the world’s top technology firms. The Patent Board’s metrics reflect varying aspects of innovation, speed, strength and relevancy.

The Patent Scorecard is published each month and the indicators are calculated based on a rolling 12-month calendar.

Technology Strength™: ranking measure to indicate an overall strength of the company’s patent portfolio holdings with a combined measure of quality and quantity.

Industry Impact™: indicates the extent to which others are building upon a portfolio of issued US utility patents as compared to a total set of patents.

Patents Granted: a count of patents granted during the period under analysis.

Science Strength™: ranking measure to indicate how much a company uses science in building its patent portfolio with a combined measure of science and quantity.

Research Intensity™: tracks a indicates the extent to which a portfolio includes patents with above average Science Linkage.

Innovation Cycle Time™: indicates whether a patent or patent portfolio is building off newer or older inventions (art).