CAMBRIDGE, UK: cintelliq Ltd, the world's leading provider of information services and technology consulting to the organic semiconductor and organic electronics industries, has announced the release of Version 3 of its flagship Organic Semiconductor Patent Analyst (OSPA) product.

OSPA is a quarterly publication, which provides data and analysis of newly published organic semiconductor patents. cintelliq founder and CEO, Craig Cruickshank explained: "Around 8,000 patents related to organic semiconductor technologies were published or granted last year. It is a huge, but nonetheless vital, task for development and manufacturing companies to track the IP activities of their competitors and partners, not only to protect their own rights but also to ensure that R&D efforts are focused on patentable areas."

OSPA provides a cost-effective solution to time-consuming and expensive in-house patent tracking. cintelliq conducts the patent searching and categorisation using its robust proprietary classification system and provides the results as patent data in Excel format with pivot tables to facilitate customised analysis. The Excel data is accompanied by a report containing comprehensive summaries and analysis.

Anja Wehrum, senior technology consultant at cintelliq, commented: "As all the data is supplied as Excel spreadsheets with pivot tables, it is very easy to manipulate it to perform in-house analysis. For example, you could find out which areas a competitor's IP focuses on, or identify which patents exist on specific device issues such as out-coupling or ink formulation."

Each quarterly issue of OSPA covers up to 1,500 patents published by the European, World, US and Japanese patent and trademark offices. cintelliq uses its technical expertise to search for, categorise and analyse the patents covering the areas of OLEDs, transistors, photovoltaics, sensors, memory and lasers. cintelliq further classifies all the patents to reflect the technical area in which they are seeking to gain IP, such as materials, encapsulation, device structure, fabrication, substrates, deposition and patterning.

The largest area is OLED, accounting for about 80 percent of all patents covered by OSPA. Recognising that subscribers may prefer more specific analysis, OSPA now offers a choice of two datasets:

* the OLEDs dataset, which covers only patents related to OLEDs
* the Organic Electronics dataset, which covers all non-OLED patents (photovoltaics, transistors, memory, sensors, lasers, etc.)

A particular feature of the new version of OSPA is the increased amount of patent data provided with each issue, including direct links from each patent number to the full patent document on the espacenet or Google Patents Web sites. The accompanying report has also been enhanced with a new format and layout to make it easier to use and quicker to locate information.

Craig Cruickshank said: "Subscribers to the previous version OSPA will be pleasantly surprised by the improvements that we have made to the product, in terms of the quantity of data, the ease of use, and the addition of new features such as the direct links to the full patent documents. We expect the new version of OSPA to generate a great deal of interest across a whole range of organisations involved in R&D, manufacturing and investment in organic semiconductor technologies. OSPA is invaluable in providing cost-effective and easily accessible patent information."