Patents imply intellectual property and it has a $ value that can be associated depending on the field and type of patent that is allocated. Patents also increase the enterprise value of the company and help prevent copy-cats from copying the idea without having royalt payments or licencing deals. We like it when companies get patents awarded!. To protect IP companies aggressively file provisional patents even before they have a working product. The below table provides a way to look at what has been done by companies and use this as a factor to make investment decisions.
| Title | Filing Date | Publication Date | Grant Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic speech recognition with textual content input | 2007-4-30 | 2008-10-30 | |
| Audio content search engine | 2007-4-30 | 2011-7-19 | 2011-7-19 |
| Rich media content search engine | 2007-4-30 | 2008-10-30 | |
| Rich media event production system and method including the capturing, indexing … | 2006-11-28 | 2011-3-22 | 2011-3-22 |
| Method, system, and apparatus for facilitating captioning of multi-media … | 2005-7-11 | 2007-1-11 | |
| System, method, and device for recording rich media data | 2004-5-27 | 2005-12-15 | |
| Orientation invariant feature detection system and method for unstructured low- … | 2002-4-15 | 2005-11-29 | 2005-11-29 |
| System for and method of capture, analysis, management, and access of disparate … | 2001-11-27 | 2004-5-13 | |
| Methods and apparatuses for a self-regulating gas displacement pump for a fuel … | 2001-6-15 | 2002-12-19 | |
| System for and method of determining the period of recurring events within a … | 2001-4-13 | 2007-8-07 | 2007-8-07 |