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INSIDE THE iPHONE
PATENT PORTFOLIO
septemBer 2012
Data Offers Glimpse Of Battery-free future, insiGht intO
smartphOne ‘patent Wars’
amOnG apple’s 1,298 mOBile
patents, sOme inDiviDual
technOlOGies stanD Out
as Key inDicatOrs Of What
the future Of smartphOne
DesiGns may hOlD.
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OvervieW
imagine never having to scan an airport or hotel
lounge for an outlet to recharge your smartphone
again. apple
®
already has, and they’ve filed
the patent for the technology that may make it
possible.
since introducing the iphone in 2007, apple
has sold over 250 million units
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to become the
leading smartphone manufacturer in the world.
along the way, the company has also filed nearly
1,300 patents and has entered into 479 lawsuits
to protect the intellectual property (ip) behind the
technology.
With the highly-anticipated fifth generation of
the iphone slated to be introduced in the fall
of 2012 and the closely-watched patent wars
between apple and its smartphone rivals making
headlines daily, what can the iphone patent
portfolio tell us about the future of apple’s crown
jewel?
to find out, the ip solutions business of thomson
reuters tracked patent activity across the
apple portfolio from January 2000 to august
2012. the analysis spotlights the hotspots of
iphone r&D and calls out some breakthrough
new technologies – such as iphone fuel cell
technology – that will set the bar for future
smartphone innovation. it also charts the
frequency of iphone-related patent litigation from
January 2008 through august 2012, suggesting
that apple is becoming much more aggressive in
the enforcement of its inventions, having already
filed nearly as many patent suits in the first half
of 2012 as it did in all of 2010 and 2011 combined.
taBle Of cOntents
OvervieW
methODOlOGy
finDinGs anD OBservatiOns
Figure 1: Core Technology Areas of Apple Patents
Figure 2: Apple’s Active IP Litigation (2008 – July, 2012)
Figure 3: Increasing Pace of Apple IP Litigation
Figure 4: Apple’s Increasing Infringement Suits (2007 - June 2012)
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cOnclusiOn
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techcrunch, “apple has shipped 250m iphones, made $150B in revenues in the past 5 years,” June 27, 2012
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/strategy-analytics-apple-has-shipped-250m-iphones-made-150b-in-revenues-in-the-
past-5-years/
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methODOlOGy
Data for this ip market report were aggregated
using thomson reuters Derwent World patents
index
®
(DWpi
sm
) to identify global patent activity
for apple, inc. in the Derwent manual code
category for portable, hand-held mobile radio
telephones. additionally, thomson reuters ip
monitor was used to identify active ip litigation
for the company. researchers analyzed the total
number of unique inventions issued in published
patent applications and granted patents
between January 2000 and august 2012. active
ip litigation was analyzed between January 2008
and June 2012.
finDinGs anD OBservatiOns
Top Technology Areas
since 2000, apple has filed 1,298 patents
addressing hand-held mobile radio telephone
technologies. the vast majority of these have
been filed following the 2007 launch of the
iphone. prior to 2007, apple filed just 17 patents
in this category.
the following table categorizes apple’s inventions
into core technology areas of focus. innovations
related to “smartphone general” leads the way,
followed by “camera” and “user interface.”
cOre technOlOGy areas Of apple patents
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technOlOGy area
iphone, smartphone General
camera
user interface
image Display/screen
Battery/power control
antenna
calendar
contact management
voice control
source: Derwent World patents index
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numBer Of inventiOns (patents)
416
279
232
149
88
75
31
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Noteworthy Patents
among apple’s 1,298 mobile-related patents,
some individual technologies stand out as key
indicators of what the future of smartphone
design may hold. among these, researchers
noted two specific technologies. Both patents
have been filed with the u.s. patent and
trademark Office and are currently listed in
“pending” status:
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Fuel Cell System to Power a Portable
Computing Device:
patent #
us20110311895, filed by apple in august
2010, which addresses a new battery
technology that will allow a portable device
to stay charged for days or even weeks
without interruption (see drawing).
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Assist Features for Content Display Device:
patent # us20110167350, filed by apple in
January 2010, which addresses education
by allowing users to interact with text via a
touch-sensitive display in order to learn more
about the text (see drawing).
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