Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ac4b44/samsung_electronic) has announced the addition of the "Samsung Electronics Co Ltd - Company Patent Mapping Report" company profile to their offering.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, a South Koreas top electronics company is one of the worlds largest microchip makers. It makes many kinds of consumer devices, including DVD players, televisions, and digital cameras; computers, color monitors, LCD panels, and printers; semiconductors such as DRAM, SRAM, and flash memory; and communications devices ranging from cellular phones to networking switches. The company, which is the flagship member of Samsung Group, also makes microwave ovens, refrigerators, air conditioners, and washing machines. [More than 12,000 US Granted Patents]

Our range of Patent Maps act as a Patent Information Encyclopedia, providing a High-level Summary of Patent Information on patenting activity in various technologies and industries. Organized into an intuitive graphical layout, they highlight a wide array of information on technology gaps and white spaces and trends in patent filings.

About Patents:

The International Patent Classification (IPC) is a hierarchical system in which the whole area of technology is divided into a range of sections, classes, subclasses and groups. This system is indispensable for the retrieval of patent documents in the search for establishing the novelty of an invention or determining the state of the art in a particular area of technology. US Patent Classification UPC classify a patent according to all information in patent specification while IPC classify a patent according to only patent claims. UPC stresses on the function of intrinsic characteristics of product or processing.

As IPC or UPC are not viable in themselves for assigning an invention to an industry, because they focus specifically on the technology, not on industries that may manufacture or use the technology, it is necessary to assign inventions to industries.

We have undertaken a concordance (matching) of IPC (International Patent Classification ) and (US Patent Classification) UPC to NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System -this new, uniform, industry-wide classification system has been designed as the index for statistical reporting of all economic activities of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico). This extensive exercise assigns patent classifications to industries based on NAICS codes. The results are summarized in the following categories:

• Primary Industries: Agribusiness, Fishing and Forestry, Mining
• Secondary Industries: Construction, Food & Accessory Manufacturing, Metal & Machinery Manufacturing, Electronic Goods Manufacturing, Miscellaneous Manufacturing
• Tertiary Industries: Wholesale & Retailing, Transportation, Services
• Quarternary & Quinary Industries: Information & Research, Health & Education, Cultural & Entertainment, Personal & Others

Key Topics Covered:

1. Assignee Patent Map

2. Assignee Country Patent Map

3. Attorney-Agent-Firm Patent Map

4. Application/Filing Year Patent Map

5. Inventor Patent Map

6.Technology Class (IPC) Patent Map

7. Sub-Technology (IPC) Patent Map

8. Publication/Grant Year Patent Map

9. Priority Year Patent Map

10. Technology Class (UPC) Patent Map

11. Sub-Technology (UPC) Patent Map

12. Backward Citation Patent Map

13. Forward Citation Patent Map

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