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Contents
- 1 Search Strategy
- 2 IP Activity Over Years
- 3 Assignees Involved – First cut
- 4 Other Assignees
- 5 Note
- 6 Deliverable
- 7 Insurance - Background
- 8 Market data - Insurance sector
- 9 Distribution of patents - Based on insurance type
- 10 Distribution of patents - Based on activity
- 11 Overall Trend - Based on insurance sector and respective activities
Search Strategy
Search date: 14 Sept, 2006
Database: Micropatent (PatSearch Fulltext)
Search Strings, Hits & Scope:
- Search I
- Query: (Life) AND (Insurance OR Reinsurance OR Polic* OR Annuit*) - 532 hits
- Search scope – Title, Abstract & Claims, Date - 2000 till date
- Databases: US, EP, WO, JP, DE, GB and FR (common for all)
- Search II
- Query: (computer) and (Insurance OR Reinsurance) and (Polic* OR Annuit*) – 511 hits
- Search scope – Title, Abstract & Claims, Date 1991 till date
- Search III
- Query: (Insurance OR Reinsurance OR polic* or Annuit*) limited by assignee (Insurance OR Bank) – 345 hits
- Search scope – Title, Abstract & Claims, Date – 1991 till date – 345 hits
- Total # of records - Search I + Search II + Search III = 1239 (excluding duplicates and family members but includes off-target)
Note: All search hits exclude family members and duplicate patent records
IP Activity Over Years
The total count here is not equal to 1239, 8 patents (priority date prior to 1990) have already been dropped during 1st filtering process.
Priority date: The initial date of filing of a patent application, normally in the applicant's domestic patent office. This date is used to help determine the novelty of an invention.
Assignees Involved – First cut
- Assignee names available for only 687 out of 1239 patents
- 459 patents are having inventor name
- In 93 patent records assignee name is not available
- Dolcera will incorporate missing assignee names during the process wherever possible from known sources
Other Assignees
- There are other insurance companies also involved apart from key players which will be indicated in final report
- Technology companies apart from GE, IBM
- Accenture
- Nippon Electric
- Ntt DoCoMo
- Xerox Corp etc…..
- Banks involved are
- Bank Of America
- Bank Of Montreal
- Bank Of New York
- Chase Manhattan Bank
- First USA Bank
- JP Morgan Chase Bank
- UFJ Bank etc…….
- Above and other Insurance, Banking and Technology assignees will be incorporated in final report
Note
- # of patents (1239) will be reduced after filtering off-target patents, so the numbers presented here will vary in final report
- Patents will be considered for analysis starting date from 1990
- Report completion will take 3-4 weeks
Deliverable
- Content
- IP landscape
- Competitor landscape
- Market landscape
- Technology landscape
- Various dimensions under which patents have been filed
- Core insurance firms patents on their internal processes
- Technology companies and their activity in Insurance domain
- Geographic distribution
- Other standard Dolcera indicators (Dash board, Mind maps etc..)
- Report format
- Power point
- Wiki
Insurance - Background
- Definition of Insurance :
- Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a potential loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for a premium and duty of care.
Market data - Insurance sector
- Insurance and risk management is an immense global industry. In America alone, the insurance business employs about 2.5 million people
- Life and health insurance in the United States will be about a $725 billion in gross revenues business in 2006, compared to only about $500 billion in 2002
- U.S. life insurance firms hold about $3.8 trillion in assets
- Personal lines comprise another vast sector of insurance. For example, private passenger automobile insurance will be about a $172 billion annual premium market in the U.S. for 2006
- Homeowners insurance is about a $50 billion market
- Property and Casualty insurance premiums will total about $450 billion in the U.S. for 2006
Distribution of patents - Based on insurance type
- 200 patents have been analyzed and categorized based on type of insurance
- For definitions follow the link
- Number in () indicates # of patents
- Trend - Top insurance filing sectors
- Maximum number of patents file under general insurance category (110) followed by
- Life insurnace (37) and
- Automobile insurance (22)
Distribution of patents - Based on activity
- Above 200 patents further analyzed for more granularity to project various patterns involved
- Trend based on various activities under insurance:
- Maximum patent filed on insurance information management system (33) followed by
- Insurance contract management system (28) and
- on various parameters of insurance premium (18)
- Conclusion
Overall Trend - Based on insurance sector and respective activities
Automobile Insurance
- Customize insurance policy and customized insurance premium for different cars and people
- Keeping uninsured from driving
Casualty insurance
- Automatic accident reporting system of an insured person
Health insurance
- Use of pharmacy benefits calculator – selects a cost effective insurance plan form the group of plans
General Insurance
- Capability modeling – Computerized, customized and flexible insurance accepting, declining and design system
- Contract management –
- Converting current insurance contract to newly launch insurance terms
- System for decreasing insurance – Computer program Computer program calculates point based on the transaction data
- Reducing insurance policy issuing time by automating assessment processing - Application contents are automatically assessed after checking predefined conditions on applicant terminal
- Real-time insurance coverage verification system
- Online policy and insurance portfolio analysis for greater value and low risk – Analyzing data of present and proposed insurance policies and provides user comparative output for different policies
- Automated insurance processing – processes (mainly verifies) current status of insurance policies
- Risk assessment system – evaluates history of natural/man made disasters in a particular geographical area and sets insurance premium
- Insurance selling system – online auction for life settlement and vertical transactions
- Straight through processing – Insurance policy issuance and management system
Life Insurance
- Annuity – Automated benefit scheme administration apparatus
- Package – Selling other services (funeral plan) along with life insurance
- Retirement – Computer based retirement planning and income arrangement system
Property insurance
- GPS Mobile insurance system – Monitoring current location and condition