I’ve been working on a few new ways of visualizing patent portfolios. One of these experiments led me to investigate Olink’s IP a little more. It’s quite interesting.
Looking at their active patents you can see that patents assigned to Olink go back to the 1990s. The plot below shows patent terms and lawsuits:
The result of these early filing means that their active portfolio peaked in ~2024 and started to fall off from there:
In my version of the Biobase I can click and bring up the IP.
This way of looking at patent portfolio’s is quite interesting and may get deployed to the main Biobase interface at some point.
It is however, quite token intensive at the moment.
If you have companies you’d like me to prioritize, ping me! (nava@whitefordresearch.com). Paid subscriptions also help fund this work.
Turns out that second patent gives a pretty clear description of the fundamental proximity ligation approach used by Alamar and Olink: