Strategic Patent Analysis Report: Portfolio Analysis

Selected Field: 3D-Printing Technology Selected companies: Company ANumber of analyzed patent families: 2260Reporting Date: 7/13/2017Retrieval Date: 7/20/2017

This is a sample report for your internal use only. Details on the parametersused are explained in the methodology section at the end of the report.

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What the patent portfolio analysis tells you 5

Portfolio Analysis

How strong is my patent portfolio?

Who are my competitors?

Which are the most valuablepatents?

How do I perform over time?

Where am I seeking for protection?

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Focus: Compare a patent portfolio from a company to it’s relevant technological field

Unique features of our strategic patent analysis

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Technological field as reference

Quality parameters

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Your patent portfolio is compared to a defined setof patents representing your technological field

Besides a quantitative analysis parameters forquality of patents are used

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Patent documents legally kept alive are ofmajor interest

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Key Figures

Question: How strong is my portfolio compared to the technological field

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9Company A’s key patent indicators

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Question: How strong is my portfolio compared to the technological field

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10Top 25 companies in the entire field

Patent Asset Index™and Portfolio Size

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Company AQualcomm

GE3D Systems

HP Inc.BASF

United TechnologiesElectro Optical Systems

SiemensIntel3M

LG ElectronicsEvonikBoeing

Carbon3DAlign Technology

HoneywellZimmer Biomet

MTU Aero EnginesPanasonicSamsung

MITNike

Airbus GroupRenishaw

Question: Who are my competitors

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11Company A’s top 10 patent families in the entire field

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DOWNLOADABLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL...(US2013327917.A1 et al.)

Single-motor extrusion head ha... (EP2003954.A2et al.)

THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING MET...(US6259962.B1 et al.)

Networked three-dimensional pr... (EP2788910.A1et al.)

ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY-BASED ADDIT...(US2013077997.A1 et al.)

Filament spool auto-change in ... (EP1299217.A1et al.)

METHOD FOR RAPID PROTOTYPING O...(EP1015215.A1 et al.)

ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY-BASED ADDIT...(US2013077996.A1 et al.)

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD ...(US2012231225.A1 et al.)

AUTOMATED CALIBRATION METHOD F...(US2013242317.A1 et al.)

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Question: Which are the most valuable patents

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Question: Where is my company seeking for protection

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Patent Asset Index™ 2,327 1,029 944 792 759 569 553 438 388 350 282 270 267 252 173

Portfolio Size 252 70 67 52 39 40 39 31 25 26 15 16 18 16 8

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Not showing pending EP and PCT applications

Question: Where are my technological strengths

13Company A’s Top IPC Classes

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IPC Symbol IPC Title Share ofPatent Asset Index™

Share ofPatents

B29C 67 Shaping techniques not covered by groups @B29C 39@-@B29C 65@, @B29C 70@ or @B29C 73@ 89.2% 81.5%

B29C 41 Shaping by coating a mould, core or other substrate, i.e. by depositing material and stripping-off the shaped arti... 25.2% 20.9%

B33Y 30 Apparatus for additive manufacturing | Details thereof or accessories therefor 24.6% 19.9%

B33Y 10 Processes of additive manufacturing 23.3% 22.3%

B29C 47 Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired for... 21.6% 18.8%

B29Cmiss SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS | SHAPING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL | AFTER-TREAT... 16.6% 12.2%

B33Y 50 Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing 16.5% 16.4%

G06F 19 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific applications 11.0% 11.5%

B29C 35 Heating, cooling or curing, e.g. crosslinking, vulcanising | Apparatus therefor 11.0% 9.4%

G06F 17 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions 9.5% 8.4%

B33Y 40 Auxiliary operations or equipment, e.g. for material handling 8.9% 7.3%

B28B 1 Producing shaped articles from the material 8.7% 7.0%

B33Y 70 Materials specially adapted for additive manufacturing 7.3% 8.0%

G03G 15 Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern 6.4% 4.5%B29C 31 Handling, e.g. feeding of the material to be shaped 6.1% 3.5%

B41J 2 Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they ar... 6.1% 5.6%

14Co-ownership* of Company A

Owner Co-Owner Shared Patent Asset Index™ Shared Portfolio Size

Company A B G NEGEV TECH APPLICATIONS AT BEN GURION UNIV 19 1

Company A BOSSIERE JOSEPH EDWARD 5 1

* Most important co-owners of active patent families also owned by Company A

Question: With whom am I collaborating

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• This is a sample report only. It shows some of the most important basicinformation in order to give you a first impression on the content of such landscape reports.

• The major questions applicable to this type of strategic patent analysis will beanswered in a full report.

• Additional questions may arise when reading the full report. We would behappy to answer those in a top-off analysis.

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Methodology

The Patent Asset IndexTM Methodologyby PatentSight 17

TECHNOLOGY RELEVANCE™Worldwide citations received from later patents, adjusted for age, patent office practices and technology fieldAverage value: 1

MARKET COVERAGE™Market size protected by active patents and pendingpatent applications on a certain inventionValue of a granted US patent: 1

PATENT ASSET INDEX™(Sum of all Competitive Impacts of an entire portfolio)

COMPETITIVE IMPACT™(Individual patent strength)

The relative business value of a patent

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The scientific publication was made in: Ernst, H., Omland, N. (2011): The Patent Asset Index – A New Approach to Benchmark Patent Portfolios. World Patent Information 33, pp. 34–41. An overview can be found in the document “Introduction to the Patent Asset Index” available from PatentSight.

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18Scientific validation of the Patent Asset Index™

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Validation studiesPatents with a high Competitive Impact are more frequently

Sample: 74.732 patent families. Source: Ernst, H., Omland, N. (2011): The Patent Asset Index - A New Approach to Benchmark Patent Portfolios. World Patent Information 33, pp. 34–41.

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Glossary (1/2)

• Technology Relevance™ (TR)The relevance of a patent for technical development. It is measured by looking at worldwide prior art citations to the patent (similar to how Google rates web pages by the links they get from other web pages). Internal TR is based on the citations made by patent families of the patent owner himself, external TR is based on citations made by patent families of third parties only.

• Market Coverage™ (MC)The existence of active patent rights to the invention in world markets. If a larger market size is protected, Market Coverage™ is higher and the patent thus has a higher Competitive Impact™.

• Competitive Impact™ (CI)The economic and strategic value of patents as measured by the product of their Technology Relevance™ and Market Coverage™. Competitive Impact™ is stated relative to other patents in the same field (e.g. a value of three means that the patent is three times as important as the average patent in the field).

• Patent Asset Index™ (PAI)The measurement of the overall strength of a patent portfolio. It is calculated as the sum of the Competitive Impact™ of all patents contained in the portfolio.

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Glossary (2/2)

• Active patentsPatent families comprising at least one pending application or a granted patent, which is not lapsed, withdrawn, invalidated or rejected at the respective date (according to Inpadocdatabase). “Active” means at least one granted patent or a pending patent application exists (at that date NOT (yet) rejected, withdrawn, lapsed, invalidated, etc.)

• Reporting DateReference date for the determination of certain patent portfolio parameters as they would have been at that “reporting date” back in history.

• Patent OwnerMost probable owner of the aggregated patent portfolio, according to Inpadoc database as well as to a consolidated patent owner database provided by PatentSight.

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