Insurance sector

Rationale

• Financial markets are a part of the changing business paradigms, across the globe - G. N. Bajpai
• Today, globalization of competencies, thinking and perspectives has been the part of Strategic Action Plan of all the major players in the financial markets, globally - G. N. Bajpai
• "The focus over the last year has been around proving the value of IT as a key contributor to business success," - David Holtzman
• Real-time documents provide faster time to market with a personal touch - Penn National Insurance

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

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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

Year wise IP activity

• Graph depicts IP activity based on publication year
• 866 patents filed in a span of 16 years (1991 - 15th Sept, 2006). Out of which 792 patents filed in last 7 years
• Trend indicates high IP activity during 2002 followed by sudden fall during 2003, since then recovering gradually

Assignee wise IP activity

Assignee wise IP activity

• Graph depicts assignee and number of patents to their credit
• Assignees with less than 3 patent record is depicted in TABLE
• MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE leading in IP activity race with 60 patents to its credit, followed by TOKIO MARINE & FIRE INSURANCE with 49 and AIOI INSURANCE with 23 patent records to their credit

Assignee wise IP activity

Note: Below mentioned assignees patents added together and presented as one in above graph

• SUMITOMO LIFE INSURANCE and MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE is presented as MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE
• GE MORTGAGE HOLDINGS and GE FINANCIAL ASSURANCE HOLDING is presented as GE FINANCIAL ASSURANCE HOLDING
• NICHIDO FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE , TOKIO MARINE AND FIRE INSURANCE , TOKIO MARINE & NICHIDO LIFE INSURANCE , TOKIO MARINE & NICHIDO FIRE INSURANCE and TOKIO MARINE & FIRE INSURANCE is presented as TOKIO MARINE & FIRE INSURANCE
• NIPPONKOA INSURANCE , NIPPON ELECTRIC and NIPPON LIFE INSURANCE is presented as NIPPON LIFE INSURANCE

Country wise IP activity

• Graph indicates IP activity based on priority country
• United States with 506 patent records is the most happening destination for insurance related IP activities followed by Japan (314) and Australia (9)
• Country code

Assignee wise IP activity

Distribution of patents - Based on insurance type

• 95 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 life insurance category (39) followed by
  • Automobile insurance (26) and
  • Property insurance (7)

Distribution of patents - Level-I Analysis

Distribution of patents - Based on activity

• Above 95 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 (23) followed by
  • Insurance payment process (21) and
  • Insurance selling system and various selling parameters (15)

Distribution of patents - Level-II Analysis

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

• Pharmacy benefits calculator – selects a cost effective insurance plan form the group of plans

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

Insurance type Vs assignee and their activities

Automobile insurance

Automobile insurance - Assignee wise patent distribution

Life insurance

Life insurance - Assignee wise patent distribution

Casualty + Health + Credit + Intellectual property and Financial loss insurance - Presented together

Assignee wise patent distribution