Another brick in the wall towards patents becoming fully-fledged assets

IAM is proud to be working alongside Richardson Oliver Insights, Cipher, Unified Patents and RPX on the creation of SPIF, a new, free-to-access tool that will make patent management and transfers more efficient.

SPIF (standardised patent identification) is a non-partisan, open standard, human readable solution for uniquely identifying patent assets that is consistent with existing formats.

SPIF shifts the burden of accurately identifying patents from the consumers of patent lists to the producers of patent lists. It works because those that create the lists are best situated to make sure they are correct. Read more…