On Oct 15, 2005, at 5:13 AM, R.S. wrote:
Clark, Kevin D, HRC-Alexandria/EDS wrote:
John, Forget about the 60 years..how about : In the last 12 years,
IBM has
received 29,021 patents--
Anyone know if Microsoft/Dell or other PC (HW/SW) makers come close
being
true innovators.
...or they just not pay such attention to the patents.
I read the story about patents and IBM: they have some kind of
patent-database, to patenting process is computer-aided.
I'm not talking innovation, but *only* patenting of it.
Is IBM innovative ? No doubt, yes! But it can be loosely related to
number of patents.
Don't forget that (if memory serves me correctly) IBM applied for a
patent for "queing" people in lines.
So its not all technical items that IBM is getting patents for.
About a year ago this was discussed on here.
If memory serves me, they (IBM) try and patent a lot of stuff that
really has not real technical value. Sounds like a numbers game to me.
Ed
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