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`Chicago-based Trading Technologies pulled off a rare trifecta in Crain's annual look at the most
`innovative companies in Illinois based on patent activity, a ranking that weighs both quantity and
`quality: It was in the top 10 for total patent output among Illinois companies last year and in the
`top 20 for quality of patents issued. It also had the highest patent output per employee among 70
`companies that had at least three patents.
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`Innovation is about quality as well
`as quantity. Ocean Tomo LLC rated
`firms’ patent portfolios based on
`the likelihood they'll be put to use.
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`Cummins Allison Inc.
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`Alltech Associates Inc.
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`Groupon Inc.
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`llosltata Inc.
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`I-lidtronics Inc.
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`Crain's also sought out the most innovative
`individuals, with a look at the most prolific patent
`producers over the past generation. Michael Burns,
`Trading Technologies’ vice president of R&D, is
`among the biggest patent winners in the Chicago
`area, with 100 since 1980, according to data
`gathered for Crain's by Deborah Strumsky, a
`professor at the University of North Carolina at
`Charlotte. (See “Mr.
`|nnovation,” this issue.)
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`“Trading Technologies has been a catalyst for firms
`like CME and CBOE to have a greater appreciation
`about the importance of patents in their industry,”
`says James Malackowski, CEO of Ocean Tomo,
`which specializing in valuing intellectual property.
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`Trading Technologies also has used patents to keep
`rivals at bay or make them pay. And now the firm is
`looking for ways to use technology to slow trades
`down and prevent the next flash crash.
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`“For the first time since electronic trading first
`existed, the innovation is notjust around being
`faster,” says Rick Lane, Trading Technologies’ chief
`technology officer. "Now innovation is in risk-
`helping people trade safer.”
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`Not all patents are created equal. Ocean Tomo
`evaluates patents based on the likelihood that
`companies will maintain and invest in them.
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`The company with the highest Eureka Index score for
`patents issued last year was Cummins Allison, a
`Mount Prospect company that makes currency-
`counting equipment. It's followed by laboratory-
`equipment maker Alltech Associates Inc. in Deerfield
`and Chicago's Groupon lnc., which scored high
`largely for patents it acquired from Price|ine.com
`founder Jay Walker.
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`Two of the top 10 companies are in specialty
`chemicals—Coskata lnc., a Warrenville-based
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`ethanol maker, and Chicago-based Ha||Star.
`Ha||Star's additives are used in everything from cars
`to cosmetics to help products resist breaking down in
`the sun. It operates the world's leading photostability
`center; customers include 3M Co., Procter & Gamble
`Co. and Johnson & Johnson.
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`“We're working on cool stuff that makes products
`better, doing chemistry-based solutions that matter,”
`CEO John Paro says.
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`Another sector that stands out is life sciences. Three
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`of the top 15 companies in the Eureka Index are in
`pharmaceuticals or medical devices and products:
`Abbott, Hospira Inc. and Northgate Technologies Inc.
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`Elgin-based Northgate, best known for products
`used to deliver gases to surgical patients, is working
`on an aerosol to help reduce scar tissue.
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`“|t's a $1 billion problem," says Bob Mantell, general
`manager of Northgate, a 38-employee division of
`Trudell Medical International of London, Ontario.
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`SERIOUS GAMING
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`Foodf ui mentTe-chnolo ies Co.
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`Traclin Technolo ies International Inc.
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`Chicaqo Board Options Exchange Inc.
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`Few companies take innovation as seriously as WMS
`Gaming Inc. About one-third of the company's 1,500
`U.S. employees work in research and development.
`About two-thirds of them work in a $40 million tech
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`center in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood. The
`company spends 16 percent of revenue on R&D.
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`Cleversafe Inc.
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`I-Iiddleby Corp.
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`Tellatis Inc.
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`WMS, which started out making pinball machines,
`makes slot machines that are as cutting-edge as any
`video games, crammed with networking and mobile
`technologies. Today, its slot machines are
`networked, and the company launched Jackpot Party
`Social Casino, one of the most popular games on
`Facebook. WMS is being acquired by Scientific
`Games Corp.
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`“We've got one of the largest patent portfolios in the
`industry," says Larry Pacey, chief innovation officer.
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`With 203 patents, WMS was the fifth-most-active
`Illinois company last year—when more patents were
`awarded than ever. Of the dozen most prolific
`individual patent winners in Illinois, seven were from
`WMS, according to Ocean Tomo.
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`GRAPHIC: The top 30 patent recipients in
`Illinois
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`GRAPHIC: Small but mighty innovators
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`WnI.1I'Jri
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`Ie Jr. Co. (Mars Inc.)
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`We-oclhead Industries Inc.
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`Pol era Corp.
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`Derin er-Ile Inc.
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`I-Iere Healthcare Inc.
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`Baxter International Inc.
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`“|nnovative companies are coming to realize that innovating is, by itself, not enough,” says
`Jonathan Masur, a professor and patent-law specialist at the University of Chicago Law School.
`“They have to innovate and patent, or they leave themselves vulnerable to competitors who
`obtain patents. Firms have also begun to see patents as an important profit source, rather than
`just a sidelight to their other businesses."
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`WMS learned those lessons the hard way.
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`"We had some IP battles in the late "90s and early 2000s that we were on the wrong side of,“ Mr.
`Pacey says. “We learned we needed to be better-equipped with the right portfolio.”
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`WMS was doing groundbreaking work on touch screens before the iPhone was released. It
`licenses that technology to
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`manufacturers in the medical
`and aviation industries.
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`It's not slowing down. WMS
`already has received as
`many patents this year as it
`did in all of 2012.
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`“We've been successful at
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`creating entirely new
`products in this category," Mr.
`Pacey says. “We've got
`artists, designers, Ph.D.
`mathematicians, engineers
`who all work to create games.
`We work with movie studios.
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`This place reeks of
`creativity.”
`Editor's note: The Eureka Index has
`been updated to correct Ideal
`Industries‘ information. Ideal ranks
`19th, with two patents per 100
`employees.
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`Larry Pacey, chief innovation officer, WMS Industries
`John R. Boehm
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`FOCUS
`Crain's 2013 EUREKA INDEX
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`City of big ideas
`Small or large, public or priwite, Crain's second-annual Eureka Index uses patents to rank Chicago's most
`innoxative companies. In an industry where billions of dollars can be made or lost in the blink of an eye,
`Chicago-based Trading Technologies pulled off a rare trifecta.
`
`Mr. Innovation
`Specializing in everything from chemical catalysts to garage door openers ("lt's surprising how much
`technology is in a garage door"), here are profiles of Chicago's most prolific inventors.
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`How Groupon bought its way to patent prominence
`ONLINE EXTRA: One of the knocks on Groupon has been that it lacks intellectual property to keep
`competitors at bay. Not anymore.
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`See how Abbott Labs stacks up
`VIDEO: We take a closer look at a perennial patent powerhouse.
`Issue date:Apri/ 29, 2013
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