Howmanypatents was launched in November 2024 by cintelliq to make patent intelligence easy and available anyone with an interest in the patent activities of companies.

Patent intelligence made easy

Howmanypatents has been started in recognition that company focused patent intelligence should be accessible to all. Whatever your role, and whatever your need. Our approach to company focused patent intelligence is to conduct the bulk of the analysis for you. We conduct the same analysis for each company making it easy for you to make comparisons between companies.

Howmanypatents is a newsletter with a database:

• The weekly newsletter: Published about 45 times a year, to take into account holidays and maintenance work on the patent database
• The company patent database: Currently contains more than 19,000 companies with a range of published charts and tables of their patents

The Weekly Newsletter

Each issue of the weekly newsletter focuses on patent intelligence and the analysis offers an opportunity to:

• Gain insights on patent strategy of companies
• Gain insights on the commercialisation strategy
• Gain insights on how companies patenting activities changes over time
• Gain insights on how company fragmented or concentrated patent portfolio is
• Gain insights on who companies choose to partner with
• Gain insights on how technologies changes over time

Company patent analysis is grouped into one of fives categories:

• Public companies
• Private companies
• Start-ups
• Universities and research institutions
• Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures

The Company Patent Database

The company patent database currently contains more than 19,000 companies. The current companies have been selected on the basis they have 100 or more patents. Companies who hold fewer patents will be added over time.

Each company in the patent database has charts and tables proving a summary of their patent activities.

Current there are four types of analysis

• Publications
• Countries
• Families
• Assignees

Each will be expanding and new categories added.

Subscriptions

Here are the options to access Howmanypatents.

📰Free: Subscribers will receive one article each month, plus occasional free content.

🔓Premium: Subscribers will have full access to all published articles and to the growing archive of previously published articles.

🔓Pro: Subscribers will have Premium access plus a subscription to the database, subject to fair use policy. (Pro subscription will be announced soon)

Usage guidelines and sharing of paid content

One paid subscription is intended for one individual, and not for groups.

Occasional forwarding of newsletter issues internally is completely fine. If you find yourself doing this regularly, please consider buying those people a subscription!

Fair use policy

Access to patent database is on the basis that subscribers will use it thoughtfully. Any irregular activities can trigger a temporary suspension, subsequent irregular activities will result in an outright ban without a refund.

The patent data and analysis

We purchase all our patent data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Specifically, we purchase PATSTAT—a comprehensive database that is updated twice a year.

All our website software has been developed in-house, including the analytical tools used to analyse the patent data and to create the charts and reports featured in our newsletters and on our website.

About me

The newsletter and patent analysis has been produced by Craig Cruickshank, Managing Consultant at cintelliq.

I have spent more than thirty years working in market and technology intelligence roles - more recently I worked at TTP plc as Senior Market Intelligence Analyst where I provided market intelligence services for the many market teams across the company's three business units - Deep Tech, Healthcare, and Life Science.

Services delivered for example - quarterly analysis of M&A activities and VC funding across the In Vitro Diagnostics industry, market sizing, analysing VC investments across the cultivated meat industry, competitor analysis of cell and gene manufacturing companies, identifying opportunities in smartphones along with many market intelligence activities in support of business development for individual market teams.

In addition to working on internal projects I also worked directly on client projects - leading the marketing intelligence activities - delivering analysis and insights on markets, competitors, customers, industries, investments and technologies.

Prior to working at TTP plc I spent 18 years building and running a successful technology and commercial advisory business focused on helping clients understand the commercial and technical opportunities in the printed, flexible and organic electronics industry.