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To: fuddled who wrote (4413)	12/18/2007 1:36:08 AM
From: ampexfan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5839

MCAM has sophisticated software used for, among other things, assessing the IP portfolio of a company. They feed the full text of the patents into the computer and crunch that data against the patents and other info of other companies. The problem is that, although it might be effective in identifying general qualitative aspects of IP, it seems unlikely that this approach can actually identify specific infringers of specific patents. From MCAM's website: Innovation Competitive Assessment M·CAM DOORS™ is the gold-standard patent risk management and analysis tool for determining the unique commercial opportunities and threats of patents issued, and applied for, in the United States and around the world. Using proprietary heuristics to review patents from a statutory and commercial application perspective, M·CAM has leveraged computational information retrieval and analysis to differentiate counterfeit innovation from the real thing. Competitive Intelligence / Investment Research - Whether you're responsible for buy-side investments or your company's competitive intelligence (CI) initiatives, M·CAM's CI solution tells you who's patenting what and how strong the position is for individual patents or for the company's entire patent portfolio. These product solutions include: New Patent Thursday™ (NPT) - source data for ear-to-the-ground monitoring of weekly patenting activity of public companies. Patent Portfolio Confidence Rating™ (PPCR) - portfolio-level analysis of a company's patents, PPCR demonstrates how strong and unique a company's patents are both within the company and when compared to its competitors. Custom PPCR™ - if your competitive or investment research intelligence needs require a more customized approach, M·CAM can provide technology-specific analysis of company and competitor portfolios.