LexInnova Technologies, LLC, is a legal services and technology consulting company headquartered in

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. It specializes in providing

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consulting,

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analytics Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is used for the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data. It also entails applying data patterns toward effective decision-making. It ...

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, legal

due diligence Due diligence is the investigation or exercise of care that a reasonable business or person is normally expected to take before entering into an agreement or contract with another party or an act with a certain standard of care. It can be a l ...

, license management,

intellectual property Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, cop ...

advisory, and technology consulting services to

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s and

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s. The company also has offices at

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and

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Overview

LexInnova Technologies was founded in May 2009, by Abhi Verma, an alumnus of IIT Varanasi and

Harvard Law Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

, to provide legal and intellectual property solutions to in-house and outside

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. They also provide consulting to technology companies to help them focus their R&D efforts and identify gaps in their IP portfolio. The company employs

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s and legal project managers. In July, 2015, LexInnova was cited in

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magazine for its patent portfolio analytics report on Internet of Things.

Notable publications

LexInnova's analysis of the IP portfolios of

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and

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was published in

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and

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when news broke of the two companies merging on 14 April 2015. LexInnova's research report and opinions have been featured in a technology article on the Internet of Things (IoT) and has been published in

in July 2015, CIO Insight, and The Investor's Business Daily. Their reports on Chinese

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maker

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have featured in

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, Lexinnova's report on ‘Network Security: Overview of patent out-licensing opportunities’ evaluated the information-security portfolios of information-security vendors and reflected in Australian CSO, WIPR and Fierce Interprise Communications defining the number of patents held by different companies. Fierce Wireless Tech cited LexInnova's Wireless Power analysis on the biggest amount of patent applications filed and received for technology related to wireless power. In Enterprise Tech publication (May 2015) LexInnova's report on 3D memory was mentioned in accordance to the allusion that the majority of R&D in SSD technology has been in 3D NAND, which is the most important technology for increasing the capacity and lowering the cost per gigabyte of storage drives. LexInnova's observation of Virtual reality patent race taken from the same report was mentioned in Hypergrid Business article ‘Sony leads virtual reality patent race’. Insights from LexInnova's report on Wireless Power have been featured by

Qualcomm Qualcomm () is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology. It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4 ...

, American global semiconductor company, in its company blog.

References

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