Nobody
wins patents like IBM
As the media continues its frenzied churn of stories about the
innovations happening at Google, Amazon, and Apple, it’s been IBM and Samsung
who have quietly collected the most patents each year in the tech industry.
As has been the
case for the last six years, IBM is leading in technology-patent-hoarding this
year, averaging roughly 27.2 patents awarded each day and grabbing nearly 3% of
all US patents issued through August 1.
Although IBM
wasn’t awarded as many patents in 2015, it bounced back in 2016 and has seen a
23% increase in patents through August 1 this year compared to the same time
frame the year prior. Last year, Quartz’s
Mike Murphy speculated that the patent dip could have been a consequence of
the company’s “painful
reinvention” from a hardware company to a cloud-computing, analytics, and
AI-services provider. The regained momentum since then suggests the company is
settling into its new focus.
Extracted from qz.com
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