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CUBOSOMESTECHNOLOGY THROUGH PATENT GLASS
RUCHICA KUMAR
WHY USE PATENTS AS TECHNOLOGY INDICATOR
Patents provide clear idea of number of players in market for a particular technology and key interest
areas of all players.
Patent data provides an accurate understanding of problems a particular invention is aiming to resolve.
Patent data helps to understand how technology has changed over the years. For example, patent data can
provide evidence of what technical domains were being researched into a decade ago as compared to
technical domains being researched today.
Such a comparison helps in mapping out progress of a technology, knowledge externalities and cross
industry innovation prospects
All the above mentioned points barely scratch the surface of ocean that is patent data analysis
In this report we aim to present few exemplary conclusions that we could draw from a detailed analysis
of cubosome technology.
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WHAT ARE CUBOSOMES
Cubosomes are discrete, sub-micron, nanostructured particles of the biscontinuous cubic liquid crystalline phase.
Cubosomes are liquid crystalline nano-structures formed from the cubic phase of lipids, such as monooleate, or
any other amphiphilic macromolecules with the unique property to be dispersed into particles.
Cubosomes are formed at controlled temperatures into lipid bi-layer twisted into three dimension with minimal
surface forming a tightly packed structure with bicontinuous domains of water and lipid. There are three different
proposed phases that these cubic structures can be in: the P-surface, G-surface and D-surface for
primitive, gyroid and diamond structures respectively.
Cubosomes consist of honeycombed (cavernous) structures separating two internal aqueous channels and a large
interfacial area.
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FORMATION OF CUBOSOMES
Cubosomes can be manufactured by two distinct methods
1. Top down technique - It is the most widely used in research area, where by bulk cubic phase is first produced
and then dispersed by high energy processing in to cubosomes nanoparticles. Bulk cubic phase is resembling a
clear rigid gel farmed by water swollen crossed linked polymer chains, where as cubic phases are like liquid
crystalline structure. The cubic phases exhibits a yield stress that increases with increasing amount of bilayer
forming surfactant and oils
2. Bottom up technique - In this cubosomes are allowed to form or crystallize from precursors. Almgren et., al.
discuss the formation of cubosomes by dispersing inverse micellar phase droplets in water at 80ºc,and allow
them to slowly cool, gradually droplets get crystallizes to cubosomes. This is more robust in large scale
production of cubosomes.
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LANDSCAPE OF CUBOSOME TECHNOLOGY
We have analysed patents related to cubosome technology from year 2006 to 2016.
This analysis has been undertaken for fulfilling following objectives:
To understand evolution of cubosome technology, and to map out its progress in terms of key players, geographical
distribution.
To identify new research areas and new licensing opportunities in field of cubosome technology
To map out applications of cubosome technology, in order to understand new investment or commercialization
opportunities
To study Technology competitiveness amongst various key players and various jurisdictions in order to determine
technology influence and market power of various key players jurisdictions.
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AIMS OF THIS PRESENTATION
This presentations aims to present an overview of this study related to cubosome technology.
The presentation would include few charts from the original study and basic explanation of each chart.
Detailed explanation, inferences, conclusions and majority of analysis charts have not been included in this
presentation for purpose of retaining simplicity in the presentation.
Interested candidates may contact the author for complete analysis and report.
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EVOLUTION OF CUBOSOME TECHNOLOGY FROM 2006-2016
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KEY PLAYERS – CUBOSOME TECHNOLOGY
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Utc Power Corporation
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Technion Research And Development Foundation Ltd.
Univ Nanjing
Virun
3M Innovative Properties Company
Beijing Institute Of Technology
Guardian Industries Corp (Us)
Korea Institute Of Science And Technology
Nanjing University
Seagate Technology Llc
Key Players - Cubosome Technology
TECHNICAL AREAS UNDER CUBOSOME TECHNOLOGY
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Technical Areas under Cubosome Technology
Medical PreparationsUse of Metallic Compounds for Cubosome formation
Material AnalysisHeat exchange materials
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CO-ASSIGNMENT – JOINT VENTURES
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Tsinghua University
Anhui Zhongchuang Electronic Information Material Co Ltd
Baxter International Inc.
Bengbu Glass Ind Design Inst
Catholic Kwandong University Industry Foundation
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Number of Applications as a Joint Venture and Players involved
Details available in full report
TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCE OF KEY PLAYERS
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MARKET POWER OF KEY PLAYERS
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Market Power of key players – Cubosome Technology
COMPARISON OF TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCE AND MARKET POWER
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Comparison - Key Players
Technology Influence Market Power
APPLICATIONS OF CUBOSOME TECHNOLOGY
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Applictions of Cubosome technology
SUMMARY
The presentation gives us an overview of cubosome technology along with its key players, and major applications.
We find upon detailed analysis of Citations, family size, applications of technology, problems solved by technology
that cubosome technology has lot more potential that what is being tapped currently.
There is lot of scope of developing cubosome technology in fields of Medicine, Microscopy amongst others.
Details are discussed in complete report available with the author.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mrs. Ruchica Kumar - An Intellectual Property professional and a registered patent agent who been working in the highly specialized and focused field of Patent Management. As a
registered patent agent she has drafted and prosecuted various patent applications. Her work is focused on technical and strategic facets of patent management involving patent analytics,
acquisition and management. Her area of specialization is patinformatics wherein, she leverages technical aspects of patent drafting, patent valuation and patent citations to generate
comprehensive patent intelligence data. Her sound technical skill set amalgamated with a strong patent knowledge base provides her good understanding of dynamics of cross industry
innovation.
Her competencies include:
• Innovation Forecasting – Analyzing knowledge spill-overs and externalities for forecasting new innovation areas for an organization using patents as indicators
• Patent Drafting in fields of Medical surgical devices and implants, cardiac rhythm management devices, urology, gynecology.
• Patent Invalidation and Patentability assessment
• Technology infusion and diffusion studies using patents as indicators
• Licensing and Technology Transfer in fields of general engineering
• Indian Patent filing and prosecution
• Technology Mapping
• Pre-litigation due diligence
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CONTACT US
• We welcome any queries regarding any of the topics you found interesting. We would be happy to provide more details on any of the topics you desire. Also, any queries regarding any issues related to intellectual property are most welcome.
• We can be reached at: Phone: +91-971-154-16163 Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Web: http://novocuslegal.com/index.php
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