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OVERTURE SERVICES INC

Overview
  • Total Patents
    220
About

OVERTURE SERVICES INC has a total of 220 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1998. It filed its patents most often in United States, Republic of Korea and EPO (European Patent Office). Its main competitors in its focus markets computer technology, machines and it methods for management are MORINVILLE PAUL V, NET PERCEPTIONS INC and SELECTICA INC.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing OVERTURE SERVICES INCs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Davis Darren J 59
#2 Soulanille Thomas A 47
#3 Snell Scott W 32
#4 Singh Narinder Pal 28
#5 Cheung Dominic Dough-Ming 27
#6 Savich Peter 23
#7 Zhao Peng 18
#8 Graham Gabriel 15
#9 Cunningham Stephan 14
#10 Cheung Dominic 13

Latest patents

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US2008071775A1 System And Method For Ranking Items
AU2007201222A1 Method and apparatus for categorizing and presenting documents of a distributed database
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EP1668576A2 Term-based concept market
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CN1816810A Detection of improper search queries in a wide area network search engine
KR20060017501A Search engine supplemented with url's that provide access to the search results from predefined search queries
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CN1842815A Method and apparatus for determining a minimum price per click for a term in an auction based internet search
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JP2004240937A Automatic flight management method for online market
AU2002301684B2 Position Bidding in a Pay for Placement Search System