IBM broke with its own patents 4186 record
IBM was the first company in a year more than 4,000 U.S. patents assigned to receive. According to IFI Patent Intelligence, the IT and consulting company last year received 4186 patents granted. Big Blue has been 16 years of patent champion.
IBM 2008, almost three times as many patents as successfully filed more than HP and Microsoft, HP, Oracle, Apple, EMC, Accenture and Google together. In parallel, IBM released last year over 1500 technical innovations without patent protection and announce now that the figure in the coming year to double. The company wants to promote innovation, to build a new, smart infrastructure. For IBM, this balance of open innovation and the protection of intellectual property is an essential element of their strategy.
IBM's research department has also announced to take part in a project to improve the quality of patents to participate. IT-based methods of analysis and statistics, will help to evaluate patents. On this basis could be a so-called Patent Quality Index will be created: It allows candidates, patent officials and the public objectively evaluate patents. From the project hope that the parties, which in recent years has greatly increased the number of poor quality patent applications and patents costs.
IBM 2008, almost three times as many patents as successfully filed more than HP and Microsoft, HP, Oracle, Apple, EMC, Accenture and Google together. In parallel, IBM released last year over 1500 technical innovations without patent protection and announce now that the figure in the coming year to double. The company wants to promote innovation, to build a new, smart infrastructure. For IBM, this balance of open innovation and the protection of intellectual property is an essential element of their strategy.
IBM's research department has also announced to take part in a project to improve the quality of patents to participate. IT-based methods of analysis and statistics, will help to evaluate patents. On this basis could be a so-called Patent Quality Index will be created: It allows candidates, patent officials and the public objectively evaluate patents. From the project hope that the parties, which in recent years has greatly increased the number of poor quality patent applications and patents costs.
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