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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, legal

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, license management,

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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 Gurgaon, India.

Overview

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

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, American global semiconductor company, in its company blog.

References

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