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Welcome to the Cipher Media Centre. We have provided a range of resources that will be useful to you, from our latest press releases, thought leadership and insight and our podcast series. If you can’t find what you are looking for, please get in touch with us.
Cipher Press Releases
Dealroom and Cipher partner to deliver patent intelligence to investors
Dealroom and Cipher are excited to announce their partnership, bringing patent data to Dealroom’s customers to enhance their search for great startups.
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LexisNexis agreement to acquire Cipher
LexisNexis enters into definitive agreement to acquire Aistemos and its Cipher classification platform.
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Automotive Lidar technology is rapidly changing
Global Prior Art, using Cipher classified patent data has found new trends in the rapidly-evolving lidar innovation field.
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Cipher patent analysis helps inform Mintel Sustainability Barometer
The Cipher platform was instrumental in providing data to support consumer trends giant Mintel in producing their Sustainability Barometer for 2022.
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TechInsights partners with Cipher to harness machine learning
The partnership will see ML used to leverage patent intelligence to reveal insight about the future direction of the semiconductor industry.
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LOT Network offers Cipher access to members
LOT Network announces access to Cipher and the Universal Technology Taxonomy for all LOT patent owning members.
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- Mar 31
Our 25-minute #CipherVision #podcast episodes are described as ‘storytelling with #data‘ and have covered topics including #cybersecurity #ML #DEI, #investment strategies and patent #valuation. Listen now: https://t.co/k3RkeqtOkc #businesspodcasts #strategicpatentintelligence https://t.co/ve6EFmPvVY
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- Mar 30
We’re just back from #IPBCEurope, where our CEO @swychern moderated a masterclass on Handling Emerging Risks. If #risk to your #patent portfolio is a concern, our Patent Risk Hub has the resources to help you: https://t.co/dJpqcDhEju #patents #riskmanagement #riskmitigation #IP https://t.co/tXxMPlHRpq
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- Mar 29
Earlier this afternoon at #IPBCEurope, our CEO @swychern moderated a masterclass – Handling Emerging Risks – featuring panellists from @RaySearch, @Dentons and others. #IP #patents #strategicpatentintelligence. https://t.co/1yeIzvyqMh
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- Mar 29
The Cipher team is back at our booth at #IPBCEurope today in Paris. Please drop by and we’ll be more than happy to schedule a quick introductory meeting at a time to suit you. #IP #patentdata #strategicpatentintelligence. https://t.co/TAlC7n1G20
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- Mar 28
“You always learn something new.” Listen to how our CEO @swychern found Day One of #IPBCEurope in Paris today. #IP #patents https://t.co/Z2kRLNB60W
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- Mar 28
Delighted to have Ken Seddon, CEO, @TheLOTNET join the Cipher team for dinner in Paris last night, ahead of the start of #IPBCEurope today. Come to our booth to say hello or book in a meeting for an introduction to the Cipher platform: https://t.co/Nit3zBwQnD #patentdata #IP https://t.co/Z7AVNPQV5f
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- Mar 28
The Cipher Universal Technology Taxonomy places every #technology #patent in the world into manageable, sensible groupings. It’s organised by reference to Technology Superclasses (10) and Subclasses (122). Find out more: https://t.co/Vph3RIIYom #strategicpatentintelligence #IP https://t.co/DjgVYz3kgc
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- Mar 27
Anna, our Solutions Analyst prepared for this week’s attendance at #IPBCEurope in Paris by getting to grips with some boulders at #Fontainebleau over the weekend. Chat to our team for help with scaling your own #patent challenges: https://t.co/6FAttm5JCj https://t.co/pGeogsUM3V
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- Mar 25
“Filing #patents still makes sense, because we don’t know what the world is going to look like in 10 years or 20 years. And we don’t want to be caught with nothing.” – Jared Engstrom of @CrowdStrike in our latest podcast: https://t.co/oD4wQILvnT #ITpodcast #businesspodcast #IP https://t.co/8Uy1B9bnOX
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- Mar 24
Our Cipher Certified expert Katrin is at the 7th European Intellectual Property Forum (Berlin, 27 – 28 April). If you fancy learning about setting your own classifiers, book in a meeting to discuss the built-in training programme: https://t.co/dU4VzsupWb #patents #IP #patentdata https://t.co/snThmMiqie
Cipher Vision Podcast
Listen to the full series
At War With Cybersecurity
Episode 2 in Season 3 features Jared Engstrom, Senior Director, IP Strategy at CrowdStrike joined us to discuss how pivotal patents are to a strategic security strategy.
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Innovation-led Sustainability
Episode 1 in Season 3 features Gregorio Ossola, Head of Corporate Solutions at one.five. Greg shared with us the importance of a data-led approach to sustainability.
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Communicating the Impact of Innovation
In our holiday special, Episode 11, Season 2, our hosts Francesca and Nigel introduce a medley of the best snippets from Series 2. Tune in to enjoy our highlights and key takeaways.
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Understanding Patent Value
Episode 10 in Season 2 features Jay Yonamine, Product Manager, GEO, Google, who shared with us his perspective on patent value, his thoughts on existing valuation methods and what the future could look like, given the possibilities and limitations of ML and AI.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in IP
Episode 9 in Season 2 features Mike Binns and Braxton Davis, both Associate General Counsel at Meta. They shared with us their experience pioneering DEI in the workplace and the current initiatives that they are working on, including ADAPT and The NCPP.
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Investing in IP
Episode 8 in Season 2 features Julian Moore, Managing Director, Technology Corporate Finance at Houlihan Lokey. Julian shared with us his experience and understanding of investing in the IP analytics field, and more.
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“I’m delighted how we’ve implemented Cipher. We’ve reduced 10-year expenses by nearly half by moving from a system where filings were based on headcount growth, to one where we systematically identify weakness in our portfolio, and file where necessary to ensure our patent ‘wall’ is maintained.” Rob Calico, Vice President IP and Litigation, ARM
“Because Cipher is an automated platform that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence, it is able to uncover companies of relevance, that we might never have discovered on our own.” Jared Engstrom, Head of Patent Development, Red Hat
“Cipher has been world class for us. It’s easy to use and it provides very powerful visual representations of what we own and importantly what our competitors have.” Dr Bobby Mukherjee, Chief Counsel, Intellectual Property and Technology Law, BAE Systems plc
“Our issue was how to fit other companies’ portfolios into that same framework that we use and there’s just no other tool other than Cipher that can do that.” Bob Pechman, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Seagate Technology
“As a leading technology company we need instant answers to who’s doing what. Cipher helps us navigate complex patent landscapes.” Lucy Wojcik, Head of IP, Ocado
Insights & Thought Leadership
Cipher forms basis of new quantum technology research paper
The authors of Global Innovation and Competition in Quantum Technology, Viewed Through the Lens of Patents and Artificial Intelligence, used Cipher to produce their report.
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Dealroom and Cipher partner to deliver patent intelligence to investors
Dealroom and Cipher are excited to announce their partnership, bringing patent data to Dealroom’s customers to enhance their search for great startups.
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Sustainability
Patent data is a great source of measuring the sustainability goals of a company. Learn which companies are leading the energy transition.
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Content-Generating AI
OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot has been a sensation since its launch. Our report looks at published patents across Content Generative AI to identify key innovators and invention owners in this space.
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LexisNexis agreement to acquire Cipher
LexisNexis enters into definitive agreement to acquire Aistemos and its Cipher classification platform.
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Inventions & Innovators spearheading Sustainable Plastics
This report identifies the firms innovating in areas such as biodegradable polymers, bio-based polymers, and sustainable adhesives.
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With Cipher you can…
Optimise your portfolio
Ensure you have the right portfolio to meet your strategic patenting objectives.
Gather competitor intelligence
Understand who’s doing what by automating patent to technology mapping.
Model cross licensing
Combine patent and revenue data to determine rational licensing outcomes.
Manage your budget
Justify patent budgets and communicate the impact of your investment.
Conduct due diligence
Automate manual reviews for efficient execution of M&A and licensing transactions.
Tackle inbound patent assertion
Be prepared with evidence to create a fast and effective threat assessment.
Benchmark your portfolio
Assess your portfolio in comparison to other owners through your technology lens.
Monetise your portfolio
Identify opportunities to create value through licensing or sale of patent assets.
Predict technology trends
Track new technologies and discover the unknown owners of future innovation.
Create Risk Mitigation Strategies
Understand the materiality of your threats to define your risk mitigation strategy.