Insurance sector
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Contents
- 1 Rationale
- 2 Search Strategy
- 3 Market data - Insurance sector
- 4 Year wise IP activity
- 5 Assignee wise IP activity
- 6 Country wise IP activity
- 7 Insurance type - Overall
- 8 Distribution of assignees in the top ten domains
- 9 Top five domains and the foreign filing trends
- 10 Distribution of analyzed patents - Based on insurance type
- 11 Distribution of patents - Based on activity
- 12 Overall Trend - Based on insurance sector and respective activities
- 13 Insurance type Vs assignee and their activities
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
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
- Graph depicts assignee and number of patents to their credit
- 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
- 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
Insurance type - Overall
Distribution of assignees in the top ten domains
| N/A | MITSUI SUMITOMO | TOKIO MARINE & NICHIDO | AIOI INSURANCE | NIPPON | DAI ICHI MUTUAL | G E | COMPUTER SCIENCES | IBM | AIU INSURANCE | HITACHI | SWISS REINSURANCE | MEIJI LIFE INSURANCE | DAIDO LIFE INSURANCE | YASUDA FIRE & MARINE | AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE | EMPLOYERS REASSURANCE | GENWORTH FINANCIAL | SOMPO JAPAN | ZURICH | AMERICAN INTER. GROUP | SONY | Total | |
| General Insurance | 52 | 49 | 34 | 17 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 246 |
| Life Insurance | 65 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 107 | ||||||||
| Automobile Insurance | 18 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 48 | |||||||||||||
| Health Insurance | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 20 | |||||||||||||||||
| Property Insurance | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mortgage Insurance | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Liability Insurance | 5 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit Insurance | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Casualty Insurance | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Title Insurnace | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 177 | 68 | 48 | 25 | 21 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
Top five domains and the foreign filing trends
Distribution of analyzed 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)
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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)
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
Life insurance
Casualty + Health + Credit + Intellectual property and Financial loss insurance - Presented together
