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USPTO Released List of Top 10 Patent Receivers

Posted by samzenpus on from the who-owns-it dept.

prostoalex writes "So who received the most patents in 2004? Despite the frequent publicity around Microsoft's or Amazon's frivolous patents, these two companies are not even on the list. IBM, Matsushita and Canon received the most patents in 2004, followed by HP, Micron, Samsung, Intel, Hitachi, Toshiba and Sony. IBM alone was granted 3,248 patents last year."

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  1. Re:The stories that you don't hear by Halo1 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    And is IBM using it's portfolio to do negatively? Nope.
    Yeah, right.
    Patents are a necessary evil. Any large company has to file patents to protect itself.
    By lobbying as hard as it can to get the broken software patent system as it exists in the US codified in Europe?
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