Intellectual Property @ IBM

Intellectual Property @ IBM:

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This IBM Blog article talks about US Innovation: alive and well.

IBM blasts it outta the park again in 2011 with the most patents issued by the USPTO. These are organized by the owner of the patents, the "assignee". See the top 50 list at IFIClaims.

IBM had 6,180 patents issued in the US, far more than the next inventor company.

The electronics companies from Japan and Korea were strong in the top 15.

Here are the top US companies. Note that Microsoft is in 6th place with 2,311 patents issued. Quite a change for a company that once relied mostly on copyright for it IP protection. GE at #11 with 1,448 patents. HP dropped to 14 as the company struggles.

The big automakers were generally in the middle of the pack with GM #18 with 1,095 patents. Apple at 39 with 676 patents (but then, not all patents are created equal). DuPont was #50 with 523 patents.

Rank	Grants	Company Name	Country
1	6180	International Business Machines Corp	United States
6	2311	Microsoft Corp	United States
11	1448	General Electric Co	United States
14	1308	Hewlett-Packard Development Co L P	United States
16	1244	Intel Corp	United States
17	1164	Broadcom Corp	United States
18	1095	GM Global Technology Operations LLC	United States
22	980	Cisco Technology Inc	United States
24	947	Micron Technology Inc	United States
26	923	Qualcomm Inc	United States
28	880	Xerox Corp	United States
32	794	Texas Instruments Inc	United States
33	780	Honeywell International Inc	United States
35	721	AT&T Intellectual Property I L P	United States
37	695	Boeing Co The	United States
39	676	Apple Inc	United States
50	523	Du Pont de Nemours, E I & Co	United States