I am pleased to announce the top 50 patent blogs. This is non-scientific, but efforts have been made make the list as meaningful as possible. Phase 1, which counted for 50% of the score, was an objective phase that was based on links and traffic, as determined by my research using Technorati and Alexa. Phase 2, which likewise counted for 50% of the score, was a voting phase and asked: (1) Which is your favorite patent blog? and (2) Which patent blogs do you read regularly. Every vote for question 1 counted as 2 points and every vote for question 2 counted as 1 point. In the charts that follow you can see the scores and vote totals. The maximum for each phase was 100 points.
Now for some observations to show just how popular the top patent blogs are in comparison with other websites and blogs:
- Five of the blogs below are in the top 2% of all websites according to Alexa traffic data, which has some 16 million websites indexed. (IPWatchdog, Promote the Progress, Invent Blog, PatentlyO, Spicy IP)
- 14 of the blogs on the list are in the top 5% of all websites according to Alexa. (IPWatchdog, Promote the Progress, Invent Blog, PatentlyO, Spicy IP, IP Think Tank, Patent Baristas, IP NewsFlash, The Business of Patents, Intellectual Property Watch, Intellectual Asset management, IP Kat, Against Monopoly, Patent Prospector)
- The top 14 blogs are all in the top 7.5% of websites according to Alexa traffic data.
- The top 3 blogs are all in the top 42,000 on Technorati, meaning they are in the top .055% of all active blogs on the Internet.
- The top 9 blogs are all in the top 100,000 on Technorati, and are in the top 1.3% of all active blogs on the Internet.
- The top 20 blogs are all in the top 400,000 on Technorati, meaning they are in the top 5.4% of all active blogs on the Internet.
Without further ado, the top 50 are:
- Patently-O
- IPWatchdog.com
- IP Kat
- Spicy IP
- Patent Baristas
- Intellectual Property Watch
- Patent Docs
- 271 Patent Blog
- BlawgIT
- Patent Prospector
- The Invent Blog
- IP Think Tank and The Prior Art
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- Orange Book Blog
- IPJUR and European Patent Caselaw
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- Promote the Progress
- IP NewsFlash
- Anticipate This!
- Patentably Defined
- India Patent
- Intellectual Asset Management
- Against Monopoly
- Patent Circle
- I/P Updates
- PHOSITA
- IP Spotlight
- Chicago IP Litigation
- The IP Factor
- Patent Arcade and File Wrapper
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- Securing Innovation
- Patents 101 and IP Estonia
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- PatLit
- Just An Examiner
- The Business of Patents
- Patentability
- Inventive Step
- Holman’s Biotech IP
- Washington State Patent Law
- California Biotech Law
- Patent Infringement Updates and Patent Assassins
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- Russian Patents
- Georgia Patent Law
- Patentnapsis
- Honoring the Inventor
- OC Patent Lawyer
- Nanomedicine & IP
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5 comments so far.
Hal
July 12, 2009 07:21 pmCongratulations. I haven’t looked at your blog before, but will take a peak over the next week or two.
SpicyIP
July 7, 2009 05:22 amGene –
Thank you very much for going through the tedious process of ranking, as also making the badges. And congratulations to you and everyone else as well.
I have just posted and linked to this on our blog here – http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/2009/07/thank-you-for-making-us-4-in-ip-world.html
thanks and best
Patent Circle
July 7, 2009 04:57 amThank you for such a wonderful initiative and giving the opportunity to be part of it.
Gene Quinn
July 6, 2009 02:07 pmThat is a splendid idea. I had thought about it, but then got all caught up in the scoring. Here are web friendly images I have created that can be used by those with blogs on the list. Typically when this is done the image is linked to the site where the winners or top blogs are announced, so I would say that should be this post.
The badges are 125 pixels by 125 pixels:
Top 5: https://ipwatchdog.com/images/top_5_2009.png
Top 10: https://ipwatchdog.com/images/top_10_2009.png
Top 15: https://ipwatchdog.com/images/top_15_2009.png
Top 20: https://ipwatchdog.com/images/top_20_2009.png
Top 25: https://ipwatchdog.com/images/top_25_2009.png
Top 50: https://ipwatchdog.com/images/top_50_2009.png
I can also create specific versions with the website name, like this:
https://ipwatchdog.com/images/patentlyo_top_2009.png
Here is a larger alternative made for European Patent Caselaw:
https://ipwatchdog.com/images/european_patent_caselaw_09a.png
Congratulations to everyone. Keep up the great work! If you would like a special badge created for your blog let me know and I will get to it ASAP.
-Gene
European patent caselaw
July 6, 2009 03:27 amThank you Gene for this initiative.
Would you create a kind of logo that each of us could put on his blog in order to show his rank ?