Quarterly patents, by the numbers: Fourth Quarter 2006
May 14, 2007
Mass High Tech - Datapoints
Datapoints: Quarterly Patents by the Number, 4th Quarter 2006 by Beth Arnold and Scott Kamholz, Mass High Tech, January 12, 2006
Welcome to the first installment of a quarterly series monitoring New England patent activity. 2006 closed with a quarter marked by consistent patent issuance in high technology and the life sciences, particularly in companies native to the region such as EMC and Raytheon, which may point to the overall health of the technology sector.
As 2007 opens, MHT and and Boston attorneys Beth Arnold and Scott Kamholz of Foley Hoag LLP will be tracking whether changes in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office or increases in venture funding to subsectors within these categories will affect the overall patent distribution.