Thursday, January 10, 2013
High-Tech companies' patents dominate granting at the U.S. Patent Office
According to a New York Times article, "The 2012 Patent Rankings: IBM on Top (Again), Google and Apple Surging", I.B.M. ranked no. 1, for the 20th consecutive year with 6,478 patents being granted. Samsung was ranked no. 2, with 5081 patents and Canon, no. 3 with 3174. Honorable mention goes to Apple and Google which both had huge gains in the number of patents to issue in 2012 as compares with 2011, according to the Times article.
A list of the top 50 U.S. patent assignees was compiled by IFI CLAIMS® 2012 Top 50 US Patent Assignees. From this list, the overwhelming majority are high-tech companies. There are many reasons for this, including the nature of the technology and breadth or scope of high-tech inventions/patents verses other technologies. What is clear is that high-tech companies value their patent intellectual property and are willing to invest time and money to secure patents for their innovations.
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