High Value Patents: Does family size matter when looking for better patents?

In the second part of our two part blog post series at IP Watchdog, we document our efforts to develop, and refine, a patent ranking system based on our unique database tracking over $7B of patents that companies are trying to sell, or have sold.

This part covers our analysis of number of claims, the usage of means claims, claim 1 word count, and family size. Also, this part shows how the different individual ranks are combined into a balanced total rank.

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“Patent Market 2015 – Buyers, Sellers & What Are They Paying.” Richardson. IPBC Korea (April 2016)