Download or read book Citizen Holdings Co Ltd Patent Landscape Analysis – January 1, 1994 to December 31, 2013 written by Reiner E. Jargosch and published by IPGenix LLC. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following analysis illustrates the underlying trends and relationships of U.S. issued patents of the subject company. The analysis employs two frequently used patent classification methods: US Patent Classification (UPC) and International Patent Classification (IPC). Aside from assisting patent examiners in determining the field of search for newly submitted patent applications, the two classification methods play a pivotal role in the characterization and analysis of technologies contained in collections of patent data. The analysis also includes the company’s most prolific inventors, top cited patents as well as foreign filings by technology area.