In 2008, IBM received 4, 186 U. S. patents, becoming the first company that has managed to overcome the mark 4 thousand American patents for the year. This number is almost three times the achievement of Hewlett-Packard, and exceeds the amount of patents obtained by Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Apple, EMC, Accenture and Google, together. Last year was the sixteenth consecutive year of patent leadership of IBM. In second place - the company Samsung, has been granted patents in 3515 - allegedly in the materials published by IFI Patent Intelligence.
IBM announced that it plans to 50%, which is more than 3000 per year, an increase in the number of published technical inventions (instead of protecting their patents). This would increase the free availability of information on inventions to interested parties. The company also intends to force IBM Research to address the empirical assessment of the quality of patents. This should help weed out low-quality patents, it is questionable in terms of capacity or in terms of the alleged technical innovations, a number that has increased in recent years. IBM hoped that the patent system more transparent would help overcome the existing crisis with the quality of patents to prevent the activities of inventors, entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes.
Although IBM and will continue to use the patent law to protect their intellectual property while at the same time the company promised to increase the number of free publications on inventions that contribute to the emergence of new, intelligent infrastructures. These intentions are expanding previous commitments not to use some of the patent law in the field of software with open source, health, education, protection okruschayuschey environment and the interoperability software.
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